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"Holiday in Cambodia"
Single by Dead Kennedys
B-side(s)	"Police Truck"
Released	May 1980
Format	7"
Genre	Hardcore punk
Length	3:43
Label	Cherry Red / Alternative Tentacles
Writer(s)	Jello Biafra & John Greenway
Producer(s)	Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys singles chronology
"California Über Alles" (1979)	"Holiday in Cambodia" (1980)	"Kill the Poor" (1980)

"Holiday in Cambodia" was the second single by the Dead Kennedys. The record was released in May 1980 on Alternative Tentacles with "Police Truck" as the b-side. The title track was re-recorded for the band's first album, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (1980), and the version that appeared on this single, as well as the single's b-side, are available on the rarities album Give Me Convenience or Give Me Death (1987).

"Holiday in Cambodia" was the only Dead Kennedys' song to have a music video. The video intersperses footage of the band playing the song with real-life scenes from the Vietnam war, complete with moshpit-like footage of rioters at the U.S embassy when the music gets heavy. The lyrics were composed by lead vocalist Jello Biafra, and the music was composed by Biafra, bassist Klaus Fluoride, guitarist East Bay Ray, and original drummer Bruce "Ted" Slesinger.

The song appears to be an attack upon both Eastern totalitarianism and Western complacency. The song's lyrics offer a satirical view of the young, self-righteous American upper class (So you been to school/For a year or two/And you know you’ve seen it all/In daddy’s car/Thinkin’ you’ll go far...) and contrast such a lifestyle with a brutal depiction of the horrible Pol Pot regime of Cambodia (Well you’ll work harder/With a gun in your back/For a bowl of rice a day/Slave for soldiers/Till you starve/Then your head is skewered on a stake).

The version of this song that appears on Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables is slightly different from the single version, being fifty-five seconds longer and featuring a drawn out guitar noise intro.

In October 1998, Biafra was sued by former members of the Dead Kennedys for not allowing them to use the band's songs in advertising. According to Biafra, the suit was a result of his refusal to allow "Holiday in Cambodia" to be used in a commercial for Levi's Dockers; Biafra opposes Levi's due to their unfair business practices and sweatshop labor. However, the verdict was that royalties had been defrauded, "The record industry has been skimming royalties owed artists since the beginning," according to Dead Kennedys guitarist East Bay Ray. "This case is no different from blues musicians being taken advantage of in the twenties and thirties. Many people doubted the claims we made against our former record label back in 1998 but with this announcement there is no denying we were the victims here." Record Label Drops Legal Action

The song was covered by straight edge hardcore/metal band Earth Crisis on their 2001 covers album The Last of the Sane.

R&B parodist Blowfly is set to release his own version of "Holiday In Cambodia", renamed "R. Kelly In Cambodia", for his forthcoming album Blowfly's Punk Party. It has also been parodied by spoof jazz artist Richard Cheese, who croons Biafra's angry, cutting lyrics in a Frank Sinatra-like voice. Also, the band Boy Sets Fire has covered it. The disc Tercer asalto by the Spanish group Def Con Dos features Veraneo en Puerto Hurraco including the line ¿Vacaciones en Camboya? ¡y una polla! ("Holidays in Cambodia? Fuck off!").

An instrumental version of "Holiday In Cambodia" also appears on Bay Area-pianist DJ Liebowitz's Beware the Piano.