Lyrics: David Lindsay-Abaire
Music: Jeanine Tesori
SETH(spoken): Attention Skaters, please clear the rink while the ice is resurfaced
Thank you for your patience
ENSEMBLE: It's Saturday night at Skater Planet
The Zamboni's on the ice
So we hang around here waiting
All the action's at the mall
But we'd rather be here skating
SETH: The action's at the mall
ENSEMBLE: But we'd rather be here skating
Ah-ah
In New Jersey
Uh-oh uh-oh uh-o-o-oh uh-o-oh
Uh-oh uh-oh uh-o-o-oh uh-o-oh
It's Saturday night in Bergan Country
There are parties everywhere
But we never get invited
And I'm with the one I love
I'm with the one I love
I'm with the one I love
I'm with the one I love
ENSEMBLE: But my love goes unrequited
I'm with the one I love
But my love goes unrequited
Ahh
Nothing's right
Nothing is what it should be
SETH: Shoes are stinky
Pay's not great
Skating's free but
I can't skate
Cause my ankles tend to roll
In New Jersey
ENSEMBLE: Uh-oh uh-oh uh-o-o-oh uh-o-oh
Uh-oh uh-oh uh-o-o-oh uh-o-oh
KIM: It's Saturday night in Butt crack township
On a road without a sign
In a town where there's not much in
Forty minutes east of hope
Forty miles from mituchin
ENSEMBLE: I'm with the one I love
KIM: It's Saturday night and I'm the new girl so I get to start from scratch
Next to Lodi this is dreamy
Sure tonight I'm getting looks
But tomorrow they might see me
ENSEMBLE: I'm always getting looks
ALL: They never really see me
ENSEMBLE: In New Jersey
In New Jersey
In New Jersey
Nothing's right
Nothing is what it should be
I'm too awkward
I'm too bright
I'm too anxious
I'm too polite
We're too chipper, we're too loud
We don't blend into a crowd
We're too weird in every way
SETH:I think Springsteen's just okay
ENSEMBLE: Which is not a thing to think in New Jersey
At least we have the rink in New Jersey
Ah-ah
Uh-oh uh-oh uh-o-o-oh uh-o-oh
Uh-oh