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From the corners of the country from the cities and the farms 
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With years and years of living tucked up underneath their arms 
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They walked away from everything just to see a dream come true 
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So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Av-enue 
  
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With a million dollar spirit and an old flat top guitar 
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They drive to town with all they own in a hundred dollar car 
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Cause one time someone told them about a friend of a friend
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they knew 
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Who owns you know a studio on 16th Av-enue 
  
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Now some are born to money they never had to say survive 
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And others swing a nine pound hammer just to stay alive 
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There's cowboys drunks and Christians mostly white and black
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and blue 
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They've all dialed the phone direct to home from 16th Av-enue 
  
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Ah but then one night in some empty room where no curtains
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ever hung 
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Like a miracle some golden words roll off of someone's tongue 
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And after years of being nothing they're all looking right at you 
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And there for awhile they'll go in style on 16th Av-enue 
  
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Hey it looks so uneventful so quiet and discreet 
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But a lot of lives were changed there on that little one-way street 
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Cause they walked away from everything just to see
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a dream come true 
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So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Av-enue