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Ocean City (single)

from Paradise Cafe (EP) by Acid Cowboys

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A song about life in the Jersey shore town of Ocean City, NJ...just north of Atlantic City.

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She was raised in a small town
At the Jersey Shore
Just North of Atlantic City
What kid could ask for more
But her father liked his drink
And her mother's moods would sink
Lower than the basement floor

She hardly knew her father
All he cared about was football
And baseball, cheap whiskey, and gambling at the pool hall.
Her mother raised the kids
And drove the bus each day
At the high school.

Her brother couldn't hold a job
But he had some big dreams
So he signed up for the army
To try to get control of things
One day an Iraqui's gun
Blew all his dreams to smithereens.

She went to mass on Sundays
And often some other days
The death of her favorite brother
Stole her spirit away
When I saw the look in her eyes
When she heard her brother had died
I held her through the night.

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from Paradise Cafe (EP), released April 24, 2017
words and music by J. Zheutlin

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