Cousin Tony

Was in a diner down the shore

With my cousin from Montreal

Who'd never been to Jersey before;

Don't think he's been anywhere at all.

 

Cousin Tony not all that polite

Unlike the Canadian cliché;

Yeah, cousin Tony was all right

In a South Jersey sort of way.

 

A Springsteen nut was cousin Tony

And Asbury Park we would do;

All the old haunts, the Stone Pony

And the Upstage Club we wandered through.

 

Cousin Tony blinded by the light

So unlike the Canadian cliché;

Cousin Tony on the turnpike tonight

Singing, 'Born in the USA'.

 

Yeah, cousin Tony's he's all right,

A Canadian with attitude;

Cousin Tony a true runner in the night,

Would make a damn fine Jersey dude.