In an age of modern camping styles like “#Vanlife” or glamping, “Camper Van” hearkens back to a “simpler time”, where reclusive loners, potentially dangerous conspiracy theorists, and the like, could live out in the woods in peace (and violence, respectively).
Life isn’t that simple, but a folksy t...
[Verse 1]
I wanna live in a camper van
Way down by the riverside
Mail suspicious packages
To officials I don't like
[Pre-Chorus]
But that's illegal and unfeasible
And hard to do just right
So you won't catch me livin'
In a camper van
[Chorus]
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Camper Va-a-a-a a-an
[Verse 2]
I wanna be on the evening news
And run from the F.B.I. (The F.B.I-I.)
Have a standoff in the woods somewhere
I'd pray I'd get shot and die!
[Pre-Chorus]
But I'm told that's inadvisable
By people smarter than I
So you won't catch me
Running from the FBI
[Chorus]
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F. B. I-I-I-I-I I I-I-I
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[Verse 3]
I wanna live in a camper van, way down by the riverside
Be free from all my bonds, and live a solitary life
But if somethin' seems that simple, then it might just be a lie
So you won't catch me livin' in a camper van
[Chorus]
Camper Va-a-a-a-a a a-a-an
Camper Va-a-a-a-a a a-a-an
Camper Va-a-a-a-a a a-a-an
Camper Va-a-a-a a-an
[Post-Chorus]
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Camper Van, Camper Van
Camper Van, Camper Van
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Camper Van was written by Coyote Wall.
Coyote Wall released Camper Van on Thu Jan 21 2021.