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