Music Monday: Roxy & Rex's Wedding Song #1... Prove It All Night

Ten years ago last September, Rex and I were married on the beach in Bay Head, New Jersey. I wore a white bikini and a veil, Rex wore his classic blue and white striped shirt and khaki shorts. Afterwards, we had a reception in the backyard at our beach house, with a band made up of some Asbury Jukes and some of La Bamba's Hubcaps. For the first time as husband and wife, we danced to two wedding songs: "Jersey Girl" (written by Tom Waits, covered by Bruce Springsteen, and posted as my Music Monday pick over on my Bay Head Blog) and Bruce Springsteen's "Prove It All Night":

I've been working real hard, trying to get my hands clean,
Tonight we'll drive that dusty road from Monroe to Angeline,
To buy you a gold ring and pretty dress of blue,
Baby just one kiss will get these things for you,
A kiss to seal our fate tonight,
A kiss to prove it all night.

Prove it all night,
Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
So prove it all night, prove it all night,
And girl I'll prove it all night for you.

Everybody's got a hunger, a hunger they can't resist,
There's so much that you want, you deserve much more than this,
But if dreams came true, oh, wouldn't that be nice,
But this ain't no dream we're living through tonight,
Girl, you want it, you take it, you pay the price.

Prove it all night,
Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
So prove it all night, prove it all night,
And girl I'll prove it all night for you.
Prove it all night, prove it all night girl and call the bluff,
Prove it all night, prove it all night and girl,
I prove it all night for your love.

Baby, tie your hair back in a long white bow,
Meet me in the fields out behind the dynamo,
You hear the voices telling you not to go,
They made their choices and they'll never know,
What it means to steal, to cheat, to lie,
What it's like to live and die.

Prove it all night,
Girl there's nothing else that we can do,
So prove it all night, prove it all night,
And girl I'll prove it all night for you.
To prove it all night...

I can't believe I found this 1978 video of Bruce Springsteen at the Capitol Theatre in Passaic, NJ...performing our wedding song on September 19th, 1978...exactly twenty years before our wedding day.

Come join Music Monday and share your songs with us. One simple rule, leave ONLY the actual post link here. You can grab this code at LJL Please note these links are STRICTLY for Music Monday participants only. All others will be deleted.