Pay the Alligator

Hey the sheriff pulled me over and he started his jive In a 20 mile zone I was doing twenty-five Son keep your lead foot off the accelerator If you don't slow down you'll have to pay the alligator I was counting my money in the back of my store IRS came a knocking at my door He found me hiding down behind my own refrigerator If you don't pay me you gotta pay the alligator Pay the alligator, pay the alligator It might be sooner and it might be later One thing for sure you gotta pay the alligator Well, the after life come and it scared me half to death I heard Saint Peter mutter underneath his breath Take this bucket well talk about it later You can paint the pearly gate or pay the alligator Well, a devil caught me looking at the thermostat I told him I'd never touch nothing like that He said shut the hell up and do what I say Or you gonna have the alligator to pay Pay the alligator, pay the alligator It might be sooner and it might be later One thing for sure you gotta pay the alligator Order in the court, suspect on the stand He said he saw the witness with a whistle in his hand The judge said I hate to implicate the perpetrator But if you jack with the judge, you gotta pay the alligator You gotta walk on razors and sleep on nails Talk like ducks and walk like quails Go blindfolded it backwards through the discombobulater If you don't do it right you gotta pay the alligator Pay the alligator, pay the alligator It might be sooner and it might be later One thing for sure you gotta pay the alligator Pay the alligator, pay the alligator It might be sooner and it might be later One thing for sure you gotta pay the alligator