Name: I Need a Vacation
Duration: 3 min 44 s
Channel: Ervin Allen Carpenter
Description: "I Need a Vacation" is a song by Ervin Allen. “I Need A Vacation” Words & Music by Ervin A. Carpenter

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“I Need A Vacation” Words & Music by Ervin A. Carpenter

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Ervin Allen

Ervin Allen is a singer-songwriter currently based in Linden, Wisconsin. Erv is a baby boomer born in 1949 and has lived the evolution of American music.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Country-Pop

Charts

Peak #57

Peak in subgenre #14

Author

Ervin Allen Carpenter

Rights

Uploaded

September 21, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.4 MB • 128 kbps • 3:44

Story behind the song

I wrote this song for the crowd at the Music Portal Cafe.  They were so blue in the winter of 2005 that I went home and wrote this song to cheer them up.  The next night when I performed this song it went over very well.

Lyrics

Well I have been toiling and living on pressures.
That has me num.
Traffic jams, bosses, wages and markets.
All make me want to run.

I need a vacation.  Where I can have some fun.
I need a vacation!  Where I can drink myself stupid on rum.

Well I want to go where there are hot sandy beaches.
Palm trees swaying in the sun.
Where there are cool sea breezes and the moonlight twinkles.
And people are all having fun.

I need a vacation.  Where I can have some fun.
I need a vacation!  Where I can drink myself stupid on rum.

I could go to the Keys and see Jimmy Buffet.
Where the fun just never stops.
Or go on spring break with the college students.
Where girls walk around in thongs and no tops.

I need a vacation.  Where I can have some fun.
I need a vacation!  Where I can drink myself stupid on rum.

Well I can vision the perfect hotel 
Where I won’t hurt my head.
So when I get stoned on Pina Coladas
I can fall from my barstool into bed.

I need a vacation.  Where I can have some fun.
I need a vacation!  Where I can drink myself stupid on rum.

I need a vacation.  Where the fun never stops.
I need a vacation!  Where I can smoke myself stupid on pot.

We need a vacation.  Where the fun never ends.
We need a vacation!  Where we can do it all over again.

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