From their 1980 album, Malice In Wonderland. The song reached #87 on Billboards Hot 100 chart on April 12, 1980.
From eightiesrarevideos.
Holiday” is a catchy tongue-in-cheek rock song that cleverly folds in several different musical styles (in particular, the chorus has a Caribbean feel that contrasts nicely with the rock verses). It was released in 1980, and was off Nazareth’s wonderfully named Malice in Wonderland LP, which goes on my “coolest album names ever” list, along with Thomas Dolby’s Aliens Ate My Buick and the Hoodoo Gurus‘ Mars Needs Guitars.
Nazareth is an interesting band who never quite made it big, but managed to have a moderately successful career, while making some seriously good music. The band started in Scotland in 1968 (!) and between 1975 and 1981, they had 7 consecutive albums break the U.S. top 100, although only 1975’s Hair of the Dog broke the top 20. I believe that they are an official one hit wonder, as only “Love Hurts” broke the top 40. How “Hair of the Dog” didn’t chart is beyond me.
Holiday
Gonna have me a holiday
Poor man’s party, rich man’s daughter
Gettin’ hotter and hotter
I don’t want any part of her way
Drinkin’ my wine, makes me feel fine
Gonna have me a holiday
I don’t want to be a pop star
Mama mama please, no more deckhands
I don’t want to be a sailor man
Mama mama please, no more face lifts
I just don’t know which one you is
Mama mama please, no more husbands
(I don’t know who my daddy is)
Hidin’ out in my rented dream
Lookin’ for attention
A cover story mention in
Ask the chauffeur who he knows
Numbers he’s got, lots of those
Tryin’ to run from this Halloween
I don’t want to be a pop star
Mama mama please, no more deckhands
I don’t want to be a sailor man
Mama mama please, no more face lifts
I just don’t know which one you is
Mama mama please, no more husbands
(I don’t know who my daddy is)
Free Fallin' 
This is one of my favorites by them
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It should’ve done better than #87. It’s hard to figure?
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Yea it’s like a lot of the bands I cover on Friday…it makes no sense…It sounds like a top 40 song but they were not a top 40 band really…they probably were pushed like they should have been.
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