new jersey girls

As far as i recall this was the first time ever I put lyrics to music, and that was in late summer 1996. I only ever started to learn the guitar in 1996, my Dad always had one, but until Oasis came along, I was never compelled to pick it up and blast out a few tunes. So, "New Jersey Girls" is really my first ever song, and i still love it, because of the memory, the time, how easy it was to write and how basic it is. The song itself came about on a family holiday to Florida, USA in July 1996. It was my first ever time out of Europe, and although I had just turned 16, I still felt very young. While walking through Walt Disney World on my own one day, I joined a queue for something in one of the rides, soon my siste Cathy had joined me in the queue, and behind me were two very attractive girls. They looked about my age, one of them asked me something and that was it, I was talking away to them as the queue went down. I don't remember either of their names, but remember that both were so beautiful with gorgeous voices. As the queue went down they asked who I was with (except Cathy) and where I was from. I was with my family, but they had gone somewhere else with kid brother Daniel and when I said "Northern Ireland" they asked in total US accents "wow man, where is that?". Soon we had stopped talking, joined a ride separately and said our goodbyes. Cathy might remember the conversation actually.

But then on a stroke of fate, later I was enjoying an ice cream and I met them both again...these days I'd have asked for a drink, a date, a phone number, probably add as friend on facebook. Back then, that was it though. My two lovely New Jersey Girls had come and gone into the night. Of course I never saw them again, but I wrote this song that night in the hotel room. If you're out there, my two New Jersey Girls...this one's for you!

written - florida, usa, july 1996 (guitar added august 1996)

about - two beautiful new jersey girls

lyrics -

i don't see them anymore
and as the days go on
i think of my new jersey girls
and where have they gone

i've seen them twice but never since
where are my new jersey girls?
i need your comfort now

where are my new jersey girls?
where are my new jersey girls?
where are my new jersey girls?
i need your comfort now

i only have my memories
and as the days go by
i long for my new jersey girls
to fall from the sky

i hear them laugh
i see them smile
where are my new jersey girls?
i'm running out of time

where are my new jersey girls?
where are my new jersey girls?
where are my new jersey girls?
i need your comfort now

i would search the world
for my new jersey girls

new jersey girls come back to me