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 scoutmaster taught me the guitar
I still can smell those autumn leaves A-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 snowballs 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 Oh,
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 And I remember thinking long
ago And telling a bartender named Stewart
I don't think I'll ever be discovered
Singing country music here in Newark
So I took a Greyhound bus on down to Nashville
Knocked on doors and made some new friends
One opened up and I walked through And I never was the same again
I'm a Jersey boy, Jersey boy Looking
back it seems 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 schoolgirl's
pretty face
Oh,
I'm a Jersey boy,
Jersey boy
From the George Washington Bridge to
the Claremont 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