Avenue C (Digitally Remastered 1996)

Lyrics：Jon Hendricks/Dave Lambert Music：Buck Clayton

Brass：N.Y I dig

Reeds：What About it?

Brass：.N.Y is big

Reeds:People tout it

Brass: I filp 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 stay

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 you got A on the one side

Reeds : 'A' - B on the other

Brass: 'D'on the other OR C in the middle

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 the 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 can be,glide on,

takin' life in stride up to Murphy Park there beside the river.

Brass:Well our feet got the 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

Brass:Yes yes

Reeds:Me and babe 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 the highway

Ensamble:Big town you don't know 'til you see it

Brass:Walk on

Reeds:I never saw such a wonderful sight

Drumbreak

Ensamble:You're gonna love it

Break

Brass:I'm hip---you'll flip

Reeds:Whe you dig it you'll stop and linger

Brass:You'll pop your top

Reeds:What a pleasure and what a swinger

Ensamble:Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you

Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you

Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you

Go dig it cop that view it's bound to thrill you