We're About 9: 4th Of July, Asbury Park

lyrics by: Bruce Springsteen

Sandy, the fireworks are hangin' over Little Eden tonight
Forcin' light onto all those stoned out faces
Left stranded on this Fourth of July

Down in town the circuit's full of switchblade lovers
So fast, so shiny, so sharp
And the wizards play down on Pinball Way
out on the boardwalk way past dark

And the boys from the casino dance with their shirts open
Like Latin lovers on the shore
Chasin' all them silly Vienna virgins by the score

Oh Sandy the aurora is rising behind us
These pier lights our carnival life on the water
Oh, love me tonight for I may never see you again
Oh I mean it, Sandy girl
My my my my my baby
Oh I mean it, Sandy girl
My baby

All the greasers, they walk the streets or get busted
trying to sleep out on the beach all night
And them boys in their high heels
Oh Sandy, their skins are so white

me, I just got tired of hangin' in them dusty arcades
Bangin' them pleasure machines
Chasin' the factory girls underneath the boardwalk
Where they all promised to unsnap their jeans

And you know the tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag
I got on it last night and my shirt got caught
That Joey kept me spinnin'
I didn't think I'd ever get off

Oh Sandy the aurora is rising behind us
The pier lights our carnival life on the water
Ah, love me tonight for I may never see you again
Oh I mean it, Sandy girl
My my my my my baby
Oh I mean it, Sandy girl
My baby

Now Sandy, that waitress I was seein' lost her desire for me
I spoke with her last night
She said she won't set herself on fire for me anymore

She worked that joint under the boardwalk
She was always the one you saw
Boppin' down the beach with the radio
Last night the kids say she was dressed like a star
In one of them cheap little seaside bars
And they saw her parked with lover boy out on the Kokomo

Did ya hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie
For telling fortunes better than they do
For me this boardwalk life's through
You oughta quit this scene too

Oh Sandy the aurora is rising behind us
These pier lights our carnival life forever
Ah, love me tonight for I may never see you again
Oh I mean it, Sandy girl
My my my my my baby
Oh I mean it, Sandy girl
My baby