All I Wanna Do Is Have Some Fun Sheryl Crow 1994 with Lyrics
3LYRICS --
This ain't no country club
And it ain't no disco
This is New York City
1, 2, 1, 2
"All I wanna do is have a little fun before I die, "
Says the man next to me out of nowhere
It's apropos of nothin'
He says, "His name is William"
But I'm sure he's Bill or Billy or Mac or Buddy
And he's plain ugly to me
And I wonder if he's ever had a day of fun in his whole life
We are drinkin' beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world they're washin' their cars
On their lunch break
Hosin' and scrubbin' as best they can in skirts in suits
They drive up in their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company and record stores too
Nothin' like Billy and me, 'cause
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feelin' I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feelin' I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
I like a good beer buzz early in the mornin'
And Billy likes to peel the labels off his bottles of Bud
He lays each one up on the bar
Then he lights every match in an oversized pack
Lettin' each one burn down to his
Thick fingers before blowin' and cursin' them out
He's watching the bottles of Bud as they spin on the floor
And a happy couple enters the bar
Dangerously close to one another
The bartender looks up from his want ads
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feelin' I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feelin' I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Otherwise the bar is ours
The day and the night and the car wash too
The Buds and the matches and they're cleanin' dirty cars
The sun and the moon
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feelin' I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I got a feelin' I'm not the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I won't tell ya, that you're the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
I've got a feelin' there's a party goin' on
Yeah, I think it's way back there!
Yeah, but all I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Songwriters: Kevin Gilbert / David Baerwald / Sheryl Crow / Bill Bottrell / Wyn Cooper
HISTORY--:
The lyrics for the song are based on the poem "Fun" by Wyn Cooper.[ Crow's producer (Bottrell) discovered Cooper's poetry book The Country of Here Below in a Pasadena, California, used bookstore. Crow adapted "Fun" into the lyrics for her song – earning Cooper considerable royalties, and helping to promote his book, originally published in a run of only 500 copies in 1987, into multiple reprints.
The opening spoken line, "This ain't no disco", is a reference to the song "Life During Wartime" by Talking Heads.[4]