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 'cause      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 demolition man   And he traveled 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 cigar's '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   And be kind to your rich relatives   And they might just leave you in their will   And 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