It Pays Big Money

My oldest brother Tommy
 Was a lineman rest his soul
 His job was hanging hot wires
 On them power company poles
 I said with all of that high voltage
 Don't it scare you half to death?
 He said it makes me kinda nervous
 But I just can't help myself.
 It pays big money and boy I'm into that
 It pays big money if you're willin' to take a chance
 I'll tell you sonny, you ought to see my bank account
 It paid big money but he sure can't spend it now.
 My dear departed cousin
 Used to put in forty hours
 Changing all them light bulbs
 On them television towers
 Every morning bright and early
 He'd climb up in the sky
 And I didn't understand it
 So one day I asked him why, he said.
 It pays big money and boy I'm into that
 It pays big money if you're willin' to take a chance
 I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account
 It paid big money but he sure can't spend it now.
 My late Uncle Charlie
 Was a demolition man
 And he travelled all over the country
 Blasting holes in this great land
 And he carried a case of dynamite
 Everywhere he went
 And he'd smoke them big long cigars
 'Til it got the best of him, but.
 It pays big money and boy I'm into that
 It pays big money if you're willin' to take a chance
 I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account
 It paid big money but he sure can't spend it now.
 Now the moral of this story
 Is don't go getting' yourself killed
 Be kind to your rich relatives
 And they might just leave you in their will
 That pays big money having foolish kin.
 It pays big money, I guess I owe it all to them
 I'll tell you sonny you ought to see my bank account
 It pays big money think I'll go spend some of it now...