Artist-The Kinks
Song-Holiday
Album-Muswell Hillbillies
Writer-Ray Davies
Tabbed by S. McNally
Intro
A-F#-Bm-E
Verse 1
A F# Bm
Holiday,
E A F#
Oh what a lovely day today,
Bm E A F#
I'm oh so glad they sent me away,
Bm E A F# Bm Eb E
To have a little holiday today, holiday.
Verse 2
A F#
Holiday,
Bm E A F#
And I'm just standing on the end of a pier,
Bm E A F#
Hoping and dreaming you were here,
Bm E A
To share my little holiday.
Verse 3
A F# Bm E
Lookin' in the sky for a gap in the clouds,
A F# Bm E
Sometimes I think that sun ain't never coming out,
A A7 D Bm
But I'd rather be here than in that dirty old town,
E
I had to leave the city cos it really brought me down.
Verse 4
A F# Bm E A F#
Oh holiday, oh what a lovely day today,
Bm E A F#
I think I'll get down on my little ol' knees and pray, thank you Lord,
Bm E A F# Bm E
Thank heaven for this holiday today, holiday.
Bridge
D A
I'm leaving insecurity behind me,
D A
The environmental pressures got me down,
A A7 D Bm
I don't need no sedatives to pull me round,
E
I don't need no sleeping pills to help me sleep sound.
Verse 5
Oh holiday,
Oh what a lovely day today,
I think I'll get down on my little ol' knees and pray,
That's what I'll do,
Thank heaven for this holiday.
Verse 6
Lying on the beach with my back burned rare,
The salt gets in my blisters and the sand gets in my hair,
And the sea's an open sewer,
But I really couldn't care,
I'm breathing through my mouth so I don't have to sniff the air.
Verse 7
Oh holiday,
Oh what a lovely day today,
I'm so glad they sent me away,
To have a little holiday.