Avenue A Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
Here's a little [G]scat tune
that I wrote about Avenue A in the 1980s,
in the early 1980s before,
you know, when there's people living there
but there weren't any houses living.
You know what I mean?
He said now they have
sushi restaurants.
There used to be
tents in the park.
I don't know if
anybody remembers that.
Riots in Tompkins [C]Square.
[D][G]

[Verse 2]
[C]Out on Avenue [D]A
With a [G]private stock 40 in the air
[C]Copping 30 quarter[D]s
From a [G]dreadlocks man
[C]The mods were doing som[D]ething
In the [G]back of the van
[C]That's when it was [D]really going [Bm]down[G]
[C]That's when it was rea[D]lly
[C]Back then it was [D]really
[C]Back when it was [D]really going [G]down
[C]Back then it was rea[D]lly[Bm]
[G]Back [C]when it was rea[D]lly
[C]Back there there was [D]three going
[Em]da -da -da -da -da -da
-da -da -da -da
[C]Black, white, [D]and Asian skinheads
[G]Pouting the streets
Shak -shak -shak -shak -shak
-shak -shak [C]-shak
Smoking spliffs an[D]d English
cigarettes with [G]coke
Ha -ha -ha [C]-ha -ha
Checking out the [D]miniskirts
[G]On the bob cut flirts
[C]That's when it was [D]really going [Bm]down[G]
[C]That's when it was rea[D]lly
[C]Back when it [D]was really
[C]That's when it was really
[D]Going dow[G]n
[C]That's when it was[D] really[Bm]
[C]Back when it was [D]really
[C]Back then it was [D]sweet, boy, [Em]an d now, yeah,
[D]yeah[Em][C][Em][D][G][D][Em]
[D][Em][C][D][G]
[C]
Prince Buster blar[D]ing from the [Bm]boombox
[G]on the roof of the car
[C]Bob Marley, the [D]Clash,
the Jam [G]an d the Special
[C]Only cross Avenue [D]B jus[G]t to cop some D
[C]You only enter the [D]path [G]to bleed
[C]That's what it [D]was really
[C]Back when it [D]was really
[C]Back then it was [D]really go[Bm]ing [G]down
[C]That's what it [D]was really
[C]Back when it was rea[D]lly
[C]That's when it was [D]really going [Em]down
[C]That's when it was rea[D]lly
[C]Back when it was rea[D]lly
[C]That's when it was rea[D]lly going dow[G]n