Eddie Rabbitt Lyrics
"Jersey Boy"

My mommy and my daddy came from Ireland in 1924
They settled in New Jersey
They bought a house with a big front porch
I went to school down on the corner
My old scout master taught me the guitar
I can still smell the autumn leaves burning in my old backyard

Oh, I'm a Jersey boy
Jersey boy
From the streets of old East Orange to the Jersey Shore
To the Palisades, I'm here to say
I'm a Jersey boy

My first best friend was Charlie
We threw snow balls at each other way back when
When Mickey Mantle and Phil Rizzuto were still in the game
And my first true love was Carol
She was pretty and she lived in the neighborhood
On the street with trees and sidewalks
Where everybody knew their neighbor good

Whoa, I'm a Jersey boy
Jersey boy
From the Old Pulaski Skyway to Lake Hopatcong
To the Hurricane Bar deep in my heart
I'm a Jersey boy

I remember thinking long ago
And telling a bartender named Stewart
I don't think I'll be discovered
Singing country music here in Newark
So I took a Greyhound bus on down to Nashville
Knocked on doors and made some friends
One opened up and I walked through
And I, I never was the same again

I'm a Jersey boy
Jersey boy
Looking back it seemed so long ago
And then again it seems like yesterday
And I'm proud to say I'm a Jersey Boy

And my mind is full of images of another time and place
Of soda shops and scrimmages and a school girl's pretty face
Ooh

I'm a Jersey boy
Jersey boy
From the George Washington Bridge to the Clairmont Diner
To the girls I knew through and through
Oh, I'm a Jersey boy
Jersey boy
From the streets of Old East Orange to the Jersey Shore
To the Palisades, I'm proud to say
I'm a Jersey boy
Jersey boy
From the Pulaski Skyway to Lake Hopatcong
To the Hurricane Bar
To the Hurricane Bar deep in my heart
I'm a Jersey boy