Down on the Avenue

Down on the avenue

Nothin's ever new

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

You'll find Mrs. Walker

Yellin' for the kids to come on in

She's got to make the liquor store

To cop a tin that pint of gin

Oh yeah

Down on the avenue

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

On the first and fifteenth

You'll find 'em full of smiles

The state sends them happiness

It only lasts a while

Oh yeah

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Dope heads on the corner

Playing checkers on a box

Smokin' funky cigarettes

Woke up out of tops

Oh yeah

Got to check out the avenue

Got to check out, the avenue

Got to check out the avenue

Got to check out, the avenue

Got to check out the avenue

Got to check out, the avenue

Got to check out the avenue

Got to check out

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do

Down on the avenue (Yeah)

Nothin's ever new (Nothin's ever new)

Everyday people doin' what they got to do