Jersey Girl by Viking Cowboy

Jersey Girl is a song composed and originally sung by American singersongwriter Tom Waits from his 1980 album Heart attack and Vine. Waits wrote the song for his future wife Kathleen Brennan, who had been living in New Waits said in a 1980 interview that, I never thought I would catch myself saying sha la la in a song. .. This is my first experiment with sha la Waits recording includes drums, bass, guitar, keyboards, and glockenspiel, in an arrangement that captures the feeling of the seashore by way of Under the Boardwalk or Spanish Harlem The song, performed by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, was released as the Bside of the 1984 single Cover Springsteen slightly rewrote it to replace a Waits line about whores on Eighth Avenue with the girls out on the avenue, and added a verse about taking that little brat of yours and dropping her off at your