"Jersey Girl" is a song composed and originally sung by American singer-songwriter Tom Waits from his 1980 album Heartattack and Vine. It subsequently became best known in a live version by Bruce Springsteen in the 1980s. Waits wrote the song with his future wife Kathleen Brennan, who had been living in New Jersey.[1] It's one of Waits' most tender songs, and captures a feeling of romantic longing despite its somewhat gritty details: Down the shore everything's alright,

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