A Night With The Jersey Devil

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Halloween-themed song, probably recorded during the 2008 Working On A Dream sessions and released as a bonus track on the iTunes version of Working On A Dream, 2009. Outro includes a snippet of Baby Blue (Gene Vincent/Robert Jones).

Happy Halloween 2008! Bruce Springsteen surprised his fans with "a little musical Halloween treat" via the internet. The music video for "A Night With the Jersey Devil," along with a free digital single of the track, dropped at brucespringsteen.net on Halloween. The song is one of the few Springsteen-penned compositions to share a co-writing credit, since it closes with a few lines and notes from Robert Jones and Gene Vincent's "Baby Blue," one of Vincent's 1958 singles. "A Night With the Jersey Devil" also was among the earliest of Springsteen's music videos to be directed by Thom Zimny, who in the decade since has worked extensively with Bruce on all of his major film/video projects. Read more in the out-of-print issue #90 of Backstreets magazine.
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Credits

• Working On A Dream (2009) (Bonus Track)
  • Bruce Springsteen: vocals, guitar, harmonica, keyboards, percussion, glockenspiel

Performances

Performed live 1 times (not including snippet performances). 2012-10-31 Blue Cross Arena At The War Memorial, Rochester, NY

Performances broken down by tour (not including rehearsals and snippet performances) Performed at 0 show(s) of 118 on the 2023-24 International Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 266 on the Springsteen On Broadway run. Performed at 0 show(s) of 14 on the Summer '17 Tour. Performed at 0 show(s) of 75 on the The River Tour 2016. Performed at 0 show(s) of 33 on the High Hopes Tour. Performed at 1 show(s) of 133 on the Wrecking Ball Tour. Performed at 0 known other show(s), plus 0 public tour rehearsal(s).

Released on Album

Released on Working On A Dream (2009) (iTunes Bonus Track) and What Love Can Do (Single, 2009).

Gallery

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On The Tracks

A NIGHT WITH THE JERSEY DEVIL

3:23

DREAM: DELUXE / 2009 b-side

Note: Recorded during the Working On A Dream sessions, but not released on the album. Video was streamed on brucespringsteen.net in October 2008, and was included on the bonus DVD of the Deluxe version of the Album. The audio was finally released as a limited edition 7-inch b-side to "What Love Can Do" on April 18, 2009.

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^{Studio Sessions: Working On A Dream}

Lyrics

A Night With The Jersey Devil

Hear me now!
I was born 13th child, 'neath the 13th moon
Spit out hungry and born anew
Daddy drag me to the river tie me in rocks
Throw me in where it's deep and wide
I go down, I don't die
Hole in the river bottom, I crawl through
Come back kill six brothers and sisters, kill Papa too
Sway down Mama, sway down low
They gonna know me wherever I go

Into my bed with her kerosene my mama creep
Set my flesh to burning, whilst I sleep
I burn, burn, burn, till my soul burn black
Black rains fall, I come back, I come back
Get down Mama, get down low
They gonna know me wherever I go

16 witches cast 16 spells
Make me guitar outta skin and human skull
Sing you a song like the wind in the sandy loam
Bring you baby out'cha your happy home

Ram's head, forked tail, clove hoof, love's my trail
I sup on your body, sip on your blood like wine
Out world theirs, this world mine
So kiss me baby till it hurts
God lost in heaven, we lost on earth
Sway down Mama, sway down low
They gonna know me wherever I go (yeah)
Wherever I go (yeah), wherever I go

Well I got a brand new lover
I love her, yes I do
Yeah she's my one and only and her name is Baby Blue
Now baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, baby, blue
That's right
Whoah, ha!
Well now baby, baby, baby
Baby, baby, blue

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Links

• MusicBrainz

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