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
   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