Avenue C lyrics

BY B. CLAYTON, J HENDRICKS AND D. LAMBERT


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Brass: N. Y. I dig
Reeds: What about it?
Brass: N. Y. is big
Reeds: People tout it
Brass: I flip my wig
Reeds: What about?
Brass: `Bout a street I dig

Piano (Basie`s solo): One day I was walkin` n`
Finally came upon a series of alphabet streets
A-B-C and D, but I went for `C`
The most of the hard-to-forget streets
It`s really and truly the dilly of all m`pet streets
Tenor sax: Hey, hey, hey everybody now

Brass: Come go walkin` with me now
Walk up avenue C now
Chicks all lookin` so pretty
They don`t give me no pity
Avenue C is the grooviest in the city

Tenor sax: I never dug an avenue so enjoyable to me
`C` Avenue is groovy
Yes it was groovy as it could be
Brass: Walk with me down Avenue C
Tenor sax: Man I really hope to say

Brass: Come on baby, while we ramble
Walk beside me while we ramble
Tenor sax: You dig it too I feel you do
What a scenic hike
It`s a walk that you`re bound to like

Brass: Y`got `B` on the one side
Reeds: `A`
Brass: `D` on the other
Reeds: `B`
Brass: `C` in the middle
Reeds: `C`
Brass and Reeds: Baby!

Trumpet: The reason that you`re feelin` so down, babe
Is `cause you live in Stuyvesant Town, babe
I dug you down in Hamilton Fish, babe
And realized that you were my dish, babe
Walkin` home and you can walk with me
Walkin` hand in hand up Avenue C, Oh babe
And while we`re walkin` we can do some talkin`
While the people dig us wonderin` what we`re puttin` down
While we, happy as we can be, glide on
Takin` life in stride up to Murphy Park there beside the river

Brass: Well our feet got rhythm
Reeds: Pure pedal syncopation
Brass: `N when we walk with `em
Reeds: Demandin` admiration
Brass: Well our step is snappy
Reeds: Dig people step aside now
Brass: Because we`re so happy
Reeds: We`re takin` life in stride now
Brass: Avenue C your vibrations are followin` me. Oh yes

Reeds: Everybody busily lookin`
Brass: Yes yes
Reeds: Me and baby steadily cookin`
Brass: Yes yes
Reeds: Start at one end talkin` and movin`
Brass: Yes yes
Reeds: To the other wiggin` and groovin`
Brass: So come
Reeds: You should
Brass: And view
Reeds: I would
Brass: This Ave-
Reeds: You could
Brass: Venue
Reeds: It`s good

Brass: Walk on
Reeds: `C` Avenue, see it my way
Brass: Talk on
Reeds: No better view on a highway
Ensemble: Big town you don`t know `till you see it
Brass: Walk on
Reeds: I never saw such a wonderful sight
Drum break

Ensemble: You`re gonna love it
Break

Brass: I`m hip, you`ll flip
Reeds: When you dig it you`ll stop and linger
Brass: You`ll pop your top
Reeds: What a pleasure and what a swinger
Ensemble: Go dig it cop that view it`s bound to thrill you
(Come on, come on, go)
Go dig it cop that view it`s bound to thrill you
(Come on, come on, now, go)
Go dig it cop that view it`s bound to thrill you
Go dig it cop that view it`s bound to thrill you