Barry Manilow – Avenue C Lyrics  Share

From Barry Manilow's album: Barry Manilow II

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
[ Avenue C lyrics from
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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
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