4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy) (Live at Paramount Theatre, Asbury Park, NJ - 11/26/1996)

Sandy the fireworks are hailin' over little Eden tonight

Forcin' a light into all those stony faces left stranded on this fourth of July

Down in town the circuit's full of switchblade lovers so fast, so shiny, so sharp

As the wizards play down on Pinball Way 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 New York virgins by the score

And Sandy, the aurora is risin' behind us

This pier lights our carnival life forever

Oh love me tonight for I may never see you again

Hey Sandy girl

My, my baby

Now the greasers, ah they tramp the streets

Or get busted for sleeping on the beach all night

Them boys in their high heels ah Sandy their skins are so white

And 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 promise to unsnap their jeans

And you know that tilt-a-whirl down on the south beach drag

I got on it last night and my shirt got caught

And they kept me spinnin' I didn't think I'd ever get off

Oh Sandy, the aurora is risin' behind us

This pier lights our carnival life on the water

Laughin' 'neath the boardwalk, ah, with the boss's daughter

I remember Sandy girl, na, na, na, na, na baby

Sandy that waitress I was seeing 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 girl you saw boppin' down the beach with the radio

The kids say last night she was dressed like a star

In one of them cheap little seaside bars

And I saw her parked with lover boy out on the Kokomo

Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie

For tellin' fortunes better than they do

For me this boardwalk life is through, babe

You ought to quit this scene too

Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us

This pier lights our carnival life forever

Oh, love me tonight and I promise I'll love you forever

Oh, I mean it, Sandy, girl

My, my, my, my, my baby

Yeah, I promise, Sandy, girl

Sha, la, la, la, la, baby