16Th Avenue

[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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   From the corners of the country
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From the cities and the farms
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With years and years of living
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Tucked up underneath their arms
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  They walked away from everything
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Just to see a dream come true
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So god bless the boys who make the noise On Sixteenth A
venue

[Verse 2]
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     With a million dollar spirit
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And old    flattop guitar
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        They drive to town with all they own
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In a hundred dollar car
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  Cause one time someone told them
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About a friend of a friend they knew
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Who owns you know a studio On Sixteenth A
venue

[Bridge]
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[Verse 3]
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 Now some were born to money
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       Never had to survive
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And others swing a nine pound hammer
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 Just to stay alive
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There's cowboys drunks and Christians
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Mostly white black   and blue
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They've all dialed the phone        collect to home From
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Sixteenth A
venue

[Interlude]
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[Verse 4]
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But one night in some empty room
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Where no curtains ever hung
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Like a miracle some golden words Rolled off someone's
tongue
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And after years of being nothing They're stare right to
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you And for a
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while they'll go in style
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On Sixteenth Avenue

[Verse 5]
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It looked so uneventful So quiet and
discreet
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Theres a lot of lives been changed
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Down oh little one way       street
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'Cause they walk away from everything
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Just to see a dream come true So God bless
             Em            C
the boys who make the noise
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On Sixteenth Avenue
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God bless the girls        and boys who make the noise
  Dsus2/A
On       Sixteenth
Sixteenth A

[Outro]
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