Lacy J. Dalton - 16th Avenue lyrics

rate me

From the corners of the country,

From the cities and the farms,

With years and years of living

Tucked up underneath their arms.

They walk away from everything,

Just to see a dream come true,

So God bless the boys who make the noise

On 16th Avenue.

With a million dollar spirit

And an old flattop guitar,

They drive to town with all they own

In a hundred dollar car

Cause one time someone told them,

About a friend of a friend they knew

who owns, you know, a studio

On 16th Avenue.

Now some were born to money,

They've never had to say," Survive"

And others swing a 9 pound hammer

Just to stay alive.

There's cowboys drunks and Christians

Mostly white and black and blue

They've all dialed the phone collect to home

From 16th Avenue.

Ah, but the one night in some empty room,

Where no curtains ever hung,

Like a miracle some golden words

Rolled off of someone's tongue

And after years of being nothing,

They're all looking right at you,

And for a while they'll go in style

On 16th Avenue.

It looked so uneventful,

So quiet and discreet,

But a lot of lives where changed

Down on that little one way street.

Cause they walk away from everything,

just to see a dream come true,

So God Bless the boys who make the noise

On 16th Avenue.

(first paragraph is the chorus and fades out)