It don't matter if you're rich   It don't make no difference if you're poor   Simple things in life can make you mad to the core   It doesn't matter if you're young   Don't make no difference if you're old   You got to stand a little rain   Before you reach a pot of gold      Chorus:   Everybody gets the blues   Everybody got to cry   Take the good with the bad   Take the lows and the high   Well you work and you worry   Spend you life paying dues   Everybody has a hard time sometime   Everybody gets the blues      Ain't no different for a woman   Than it is for a man   Everybody goes dancing   Everybody pays the band   Everybody got to take   Everybody got to give   Everybody got to live      [repeat chorus]      Don't matter if you're fat   Don't matter if you're thin   Everybody got to lose   Everybody got to win   Don't matter if you're black   Don't matter if you're white   You know you got to get it wrong   To have a chance to make it right      [repeat chorus]