The license must have a Connecticut address and not an out of state address. Its lyrics are nearly unintelligible, but based on what's being sung in these other songs, maybe it's for the best.Description: The LA License is a Flexible plastic card, the back has a 1D and 2D barcode. It begins: "I'm from New Jersey/I don't expect too much/If the world ended today/I would adjust." He goes on to explain that New Jersey is "like Ohio/But even more so." See also "10 Coolest Things About New Jersey" by Bloodhound Gang (there's not even 10, and none of them are printable) and "Sometimes, New Jersey" by Saves the Day, in which a young man behaves rather pathetically - really, you don't want to know.Īfter reviewing this ragtag assemblage, you might ask, "Is it any wonder the state has no official song?" Well, here's the tune that gets my vote: The World/Inferno Friendship Society's "My Ancestral Homeland, New Jersey," which rips like fuel-injected Irish music. John Gorka's "I'm From New Jersey" is a perfect example. NEW JERSEY INFERIORITY COMPLEX - In these songs, the singers whine about where they're from.
Others in this category include the hardcore thrash-fest "Ballad of New Jersey" by Old School 101, and "New Jersey Fake I.D." by David Ivar and Herman Dune, which contains the words, "Get a ticket from an obese trooper $230." Didn't you notice that it appears on an album with the songs "Zipper Pig" and "Cavity Search"? This fine ballad includes the lines, "Out in the woods, you're cuffed to a tree/The end of my gun is the last thing you'll see." Welcome to New Jersey, big fella. PICKING ON NEW JERSEY - You may harbor high hopes for a song called "Welcome to New Jersey" by X-Cops. That includes Julie Gold, composer of "Tiger in New Jersey" Tommy Morrell and the Time-Warp Tophands, with "New Jersey Coyotes" (all nine seconds of it) and Character ("While Clamming in New Jersey") In the micro-flora category, we find "New Jersey Scum Swamp," a progressive jazz tune by Naked City. NEW JERSEY FAUNA - Horse and whelk be damned! Some songwriters think the Garden State is a Garden of Eden. But that hasn't stopped dozens of songwriters from including references to New Jersey in their musical creations for better and, just as often, for worse.įor your sonic delectation, here are a few general categories and some of their more memorable examples for your New Jersey-based iPod. That's right, New Jersey does not have an official tune to dampen the eyes (and bore the children) at sporting events.
But when it comes to a state song, forget about it. It even has a state shell, the knobbed whelk, and a state dinosaur, Hadrosaurus foulkii. NEW JERSEY'S state mammal is the horse its insect, the honeybee.
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