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 Sixteenth Avenue
With a million dollar spirit
and an old flat top guitar
they drive to town with all
they own in a hundred
dollar car âcos one time
someone told them about a
friend of a friend they knew
who owned you know a
studio on Sixteenth Avenue
Well some are born to money
They never had to say survive
and others swing a nine pound
hammer just to stay alive
Thereâs cowboys, drunks and
Christians mostly white
and black and blue
Theyâve all dialled the phone
collect to home on
Sixteenth Avenue
Ah but then one night
in some empty room
where no curtains ever hung
Like a miracle some
golden words rolled off
of someoneâs tongue
After years of being nothing
theyâre all looking right at you
and for awhile you go in style
on Sixteenth Avenue
They look so uneventful
So innocent and discreet
but a lot of lives were
changed down on that
little one way street
Yeah they walked away
from everything just to
see a dream come true
So God bless the boys
who make the noise
on Sixteenth 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 Sixteenth Avenue
God bless the boys
who make the noise
on Sixteenth Avenue
