16th Avenue Lyrics - Sunny Sweeney

From the corners of the country 

From the cities and the farms 

With years and years of living 

Tucked up underneath their arms 

[Chorus] 

They walked 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 'em 

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 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 in that little one way street 

[Chorus]