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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 walk 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 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 
 
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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 
 
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Repeat 1st verse and fade