4th of July, Asbury Park (Sandy)

Sandy, the fireworks are hailing over Little Eden tonight

Forcing a light into all those stony faces left stranded on this warm July

Down in the town, the Circuit's full a switchblade lovers

So fast, so shiny and 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

Chasing all them silly New York virgins by the score

And Sandy, the aurora is rising 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 hanging in them dusty arcades

Banging them pleasure machines

Chasing the factory girls underneath the boardwalk

Where they all promise to unsnap her 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 spinning, babe

Didn't think I'd ever get off

Oh Sandy, the aurora is rising behind us

This pier lights our carnival life on the water

Running, laughing 'neath the boardwalk (Laughing 'neath the boardwalk)

Ah, with the boss's daughter (Ah, with the boss's daughter)

I remember Sandy, girl

My, my, my, my, my 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 bopping 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 telling fortunes better than they do

For me this boardwalk life's through, babe

You oughta 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