Jersey Girl by Viking Cowboy

“Jersey Girl“ is a song composed and originally sung by American singer-songwriter 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 Jersey.[1] 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 la.’“[1] 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 B-side of the 1984 single “Cover Me“.[3] 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 drop[ping] her off at your