I Have To Have A Holiday Poem by Charles M Moore

I have to have a holiday
I need to have a break
the housework and the gardening
are making my neck ache
and as for painting ceilings
and working on the cars
a holiday seems just the thing
to stop me going mad

So tell my friends I'll miss them
when you go down the pub
and say hello to those I know
up at the bingo club
it won't be long till I return
so don't you fret or fear
I've got to get away from it
at least once in the year.