G5 G5 E5 D5 G5 G5 D5 G5 G5 From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms E5 C5 G5 D5 With years and years of living tucked up underneath their arms E5 C5 G5 C5 They walk away from everything just to see a dream come true G5 G5 E5 D5 C5 D5 G5 So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue Same chord progression throughout song 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 them 'bout 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 G5 G5 E5 D5 G5 Ah, but then 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 on that little one way street 'Cause they walk away from everything just to see a dream come true So God bless the boys who make the noise on 16th Avenue G5 G5 E5 D5 G5 Repeat 1st verse and fade