This song was Sheryl Crow’s breakthrough hit; in 1995 it was nominated for Best Song of the Year, won the award for Best Female Pop Vocal Performance, and was on the Grammy Record of the Year. The song is Crow’s biggest US hit, peaking at Number 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and topping the Adult Conte...
[Intro]
Hit it
This ain't no disco
It ain't no country club either
This is LA
[Verse 1]
"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 nothing
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 drinking beer at noon on Tuesday
In a bar that faces a giant car wash
The good people of the world
Are washing their cars on their lunch break
Hosin' and scrubbin' as best they can in skirts and suits
They drive their shiny Datsuns and Buicks
Back to the phone company, the record store too
Well, they're nothing like Billy and me, 'cause
[Chorus]
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
[Verse 2]
I like a good beer buzz early in the mornin'
And Billy likes to peel the labels from his bottles of Bud
He shreds them 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
And 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, but
[Chorus]
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
[Bridge]
Otherwise the bar is ours
The day and the night and the car wash too
The matches and the Buds and the clean and dirty cars
The sun and the moon, but
[Chorus]
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 got a feelin' the party has just begun
All I wanna do is have some fun
I won't tell you that you're the only one
All I wanna do is have some fun
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
Until the sun comes up over Santa Monica Boulevard
All I Wanna Do was written by Bill Bottrell & David Baerwald & Kevin Gilbert & Sheryl Crow & Wyn Cooper.
All I Wanna Do was produced by Bill Bottrell.
Sheryl Crow released All I Wanna Do on Mon Apr 04 1994.
Yes, the song won at the 1995 Grammy Award’s for Record of the Year and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance!