16th Avenue chords by Lacy J. Dalton

Chords with lyrics

G+G G/F E minorEm D MajorD G+G


     G+G                D MajorD       G+G   G/F#
From the corners of the country, from the cities and the farms
   E minorEm         C majorC        G+G         D MajorD
With years and years of living tucked up underneath their arms
   E minorEm       C majorC         G+G        C majorC
They walk away from everything just to see a dream come true
    G+G     G/F#   E minorEm    D MajorD    C majorC  D MajorD G+G
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

G+G G/F E minorEm D MajorD G+G

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

G+G G/F E minorEm D MajorD G+G

Repeat 1st verse and fade