16Th Avenue

From the corners of the country from the cities and the farms

With years and years of living tucked up underneath their arms

They walked away from everything just to see a dream come true

So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Av-enue

With a million dollar spirit and an old flat top 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 Av-e   nue

Now some are born to money they never had to say survive

And others swing a nine pound hammer just to stay alive

There’s cowboys drunks and Christians mostly white and black and blue

They’ve all dialed the phone direct to home from 16th Av-e   nue

Ah but then one night in some empty room where no curtains ever hung

Like a miracle some golden words roll off of someone’s tongue

And after years of being nothing they’re all looking right at you

And there for awhile they’ll go in style on 16th Av-e   nue

Hey it looks so uneventful so quiet and discreet

But a lot of lives were changed there on that little one-way street

Cause they walked away from everything just to see a dream come true

So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Av-e   nue