Bored walking on the boardwalk, New Jersey Shore.
If I come to New York, can I sleep on your floor?
I've been living out of a suitcase on the motel floor
and running up tabs at the corner store.
I'm barely walking on the boardwalk anymore.
When summer gets along,
your hair gets too long.
I'm picking up the habit of drinking long before four,
when July is gone, I'll be twenty-four
and then not anymore.
New Jersey shore, New Jersey shore,
then not anymore.



Lyrics submitted by oofus

Track duration: 02:40


Jersey Shore song meanings
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    General Comment:i live in jersey, point pleasant to be exact. i love it here, i love the boardwalk[s] this is my favorite promise ring song because it reminds me how amazing it is to live here and how nice all the people are and everything. (=
    Flag wickedstyLeon January 09, 2005   Link
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    General Comment:i live in toms river (a nice 20 mins away from the shore) and when i try to go to the boardwalk in the summer its crowded with gay people who come only in the summer. if you wanna use our shore, live here in the winter too. then maybe you'll think twice about it.
    Flag twiztedkandyon May 02, 2004   Link
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    General Comment:i live in good ol sleeze-side heights. the jersey shore owns you.
    Flag schoolofspoolon May 01, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:i <3 this song...i live in jersey and move to the shore every summer. this song completelly describes the days down there. even though i complain constantly about jersey, i do love it and wouldnt trade it for the world.
    Flag Xtragic mistakeXon April 28, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:this song is totally jersey.. excellent trademark p.ring wordplay ("bored walking on the boardwalk.."). yum.

    jersey is rediculously awesome... other than california.. i've yet to find anyone who could even COMPARE their state up against it... i'll take my 8-lanes-into-one-giant-free-for-all-lane Garden State Parkway tollbooth exits and my jersey shore any day. whoo!
    Flag chiggson April 21, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:new jersey...only the strong will survive.
    Flag agesixraceron March 06, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:this song is beautiful. i live in new jersey in the summer so i have a kind of attachment to it, but yeah visit it if you have a chance.
    Flag justlikeclockworkon March 04, 2003   Link
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    General Comment:The New Jersey music scene freakin' rocks!! STD, Thursday, Catch22, Ill Nino, E-town Concrete, Avery, Element 101, Flowers and Cops, Midtown, Stillewelle, and many more! NJ is a great place to be, some amazing people to meet, awesome music. It just gets sick and boring if you've lived here for a long time, which is probably the same anywhere you live.
    Flag SomethingsFadeon August 26, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:It means the world to me. So many good bands have come out of Jersey and PA. And I live in both states. w00t. :]
    Flag Drunkenwhisperson August 23, 2002   Link
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    General Comment:doode this song is cool.. i heard it awhile ago.. and didnt know it was thr promise ring cuz kazaa is gay and said it was NFG... whatever... uhm, i juss got back from new jersey.. in wildwood. its pretty cool there i guess... i prefer Ocean City, MD tho.. buts that juss me =/
    Flag Poopyumyumon August 16, 2002   Link

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