Hell to Pay

[Verse 1: Boz Scaggs & Bonnie Raitt]

Well I got a Senator over in Texas

Got me a judge down in New Orleans

Bought me a Senator over in Texas

And a judge down in New Orleans

Sometimes I call the Gulf my oyster

Sweetest little deal you’ve ever seen

[Verse 2: Boz Scaggs]

Well the one kid’s high on God knows what

And the other one smashed the Benz

Between the bank boys and the lawyers

I don’t know where it ends

Sometimes I've got to wonder about living high in the hog

There’s times I wish I’d married me a woman

'Stead of buying this fierce show dog

Can’t say the old man didn’t warn me

When he 'xplained me judgment day

And the one little thing I forgot to remember

There’s a matter of some hell to pay

[Verse 3: Bonnie Raitt]

And then here comes Shifty and his new 150

He wants to take me for a ride

Saying hey little mamma how ‘bout a little drama

Why don’t you just hop in inside?

Said I might look like a yokel but I’m high tech mogul

With a tiger in my tank

I said oh my goodness you’re a real smooth talker

I believe I’ll take that drink

But first thing buddy better cool your jets

Before you make your play

You gotta feed the kitty and oh yes well

There’s a matter of some hell to pay

[Guitar solo]

[Verse 4: Boz Scaggs & Bonnie Raitt]

Well now you got your devil in the details

Got your devil in the cake

You can’t look around most anywhere

That the devil ain’t on the take

He’s waiting on down at the end of the aisle

He’s a waiting at the pearly gates

I’d say the man’s about everywhere

Ubiquitous some might say

Truth is he’s worn out all us fools

And ain’t no one left to play

He’s bored, he’s mad, he’s all shook up

And there’s gonna be hell to pay

[Slide guitar solo]

[Verse 5: Boz Scaggs & Bonnie Raitt]

Well we’ve dirtied up the waters

We pretty much trashed the earth

The butcher and the baker and everybody else

Has taken it for all its worth

Saying “me oh my, it was a big old pie

And I sure as hell filled my cup”

That Senator’s a comin' on a big white horse

And my judge is gonna fix me up

But as I come to [guage?] this moment

It’s time to pipe or pray

'Cause now it’s time for the money shot baby

Times up and there’s hell to pay

You got some hell to pay