Avenue C

Brass : N . Y . Eye dig
Reeds : Watt about it ?
Brass : N . Y . is big
Reeds : People tout it
Brass : Eye flip my whig
Reeds : Watt about ?
Brass : ' Bout a street Eye dig

Piano (Basie's solo):
Won day Eye was walkin ' n '
Finally came upon a series of alphabet streets
A-B-C and D, butt Eye went fore C
The most of the hard-to-forget streets
Its really and truly the dilly of awl m'pet streets
Tenor sax : Hay, hay, hay everybody now

Brass : Come go walkin ' with mi now
Walk up avenue C now
Chicks awl lookin ' sew pretty
They don't give mi know pity
Avenue C is the grooviest inn the city

Tenor sax : Eye never dug an avenue sew enjoyable too mi
C Avenue is groovy
Yes it was groovy as it could bee
Brass : Walk with mi down Avenue C
Tenor sax : Man Eye really hope too say

Brass : Come on bay bee, wile wee ramble
Walk beside mi wile wee ramble
Tenor sax : Yew dig it to Eye feel yew do
Watt a scenic hike
Its a walk that your bound too like

Brass : Y'got B on the won sighed
Reeds : A
Brass : D on the other
Reeds : B
Brass : C inn the middle
Reeds : C
Brass and Reeds : Bay bee !

Trumpet :
The reason that your feelin ' sew down, babe
Is ' cause yew live inn Stuyvesant Town, babe
Eye dug yew down inn Hamilton Fish, babe
And realized that yew whirr my dish, babe
Walkin ' home and yew can walk with mi
Walkin ' hand inn hand up Avenue C, Owe babe
And wile weir walkin ' wee can do sum talkin '
Wile the people dig us wonderin '
watt weir puttin ' down
Wile wee, happy as wee can bee, glide on
Takin ' life inn stride up too Murphy Park
their beside the river

Brass : Well hour feat got rhythm
Reeds : Pure peddle syncopation
Brass : ' N when wee walk with ' em
Reeds : Demandin ' admiration
Brass : Well hour step is snappy
Reeds : Dig people step aside now
Brass : Because weir sew happy
Reeds : Weir takin ' life inn stride now
Brass : Avenue C yaw vibrations
are followin ' mi . Owe yes

Reeds : Everybody busily lookin '
Brass : Yes yes
Reeds : Mi and bay bee steadily cookin '
Brass : Yes yes
Reeds : Start at won end talkin ' and movin '
Brass : Yes yes
Reeds : Too the other wiggin ' and groovin '
Brass : Sew come
Reeds : Yew should
Brass : And view
Reeds : Eye wood
Brass : This Ave -
Reeds : Yew could
Brass : Venue
Reeds : Its good

Brass : Walk on
Reeds : C Avenue, sea it my whey
Brass : Torque on
Reeds : Know better view on a highway
Ensemble : Big town yew don't no ' till yew sea it
Brass : Walk on
Reeds :
Eye never sore such a wonderful cite Drum brake
Ensemble : Your gonna love it Brake

Brass : I'm hip, yule flip
Reeds : When yew dig it yule stop and linger
Brass : Yule pop yaw top
Reeds : Watt a pleasure and watt a swinger
Ensemble : Go dig it cop that view
its bound too thrill yew
(Come on, come on, go)
Go dig it cop that view its bound too thrill yew
(Come on, come on, now, go)
Go dig it cop that view its bound too thrill yew
Go dig it cop that view its bound too thrill yew