Boulevard

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Rod MacDonald

Rod MacDonald (born August 17, 1948) is an American singer-songwriter, novelist, and educator. He was a "big part of the 1980s folk revival in Greenwich Village clubs", performing at the Speakeasy, The Bottom Line, Folk City, and the "Songwriter's Exchange" at the Cornelia Street Cafe. He co-founded the Greenwich Village Folk Festival, now a non-profit, and is still the President and co-producer of its events. He is perhaps best known for his songs "American Jerusalem", about the "contrast between the rich and the poor in Manhattan" (Sing Out!), "A Sailor's Prayer", "Coming of the Snow", "Every Living Thing", and "My Neighbors in Delray", a description of the September 11 hijackers' last days in Delray Beach, Florida, where MacDonald has lived since 1995. His… more »

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If I should meet you on the avenue
Would you take the time for a word or two
Or just walk on by pretending we are strangers
On a summer Sunday on the boulevard
Would you tell me life's been treatin' you hard
Lost its mystery, lost its danger

You're a gracious lady in the latest style
With your summer dress and your summer style
And the time to forget the memories in your eye
But hold me baby you said back then
Make me love you so, make us one again
And don't you let me go
Or you know I'm going to die

There's a rainy sidewalk with some café chairs
We could take a moment, pass a memory there
If we're not in a hurry to spend no moments together
I know I'm dressed in no finery
When you come down to it, I look like me
But I won't be on this boulevard forever

You had my dreams and I had yours too
Can you tell me yours are coming true
Have you learned to laugh, do you know when to cry
But hold me baby you said back then
Make me love you so, make us one again
And don't you let me go
Or you know I'm going to die

You're a gracious lady in the latest style
With your summer dress and your summer smile
And the time to forget the memories in your eye
But hold me baby you said back then
Make me love you so, make us one again
And don't you let me go
Or you know I'm going to die

So if I should meet you on the avenue
On a sunny day when the sky's so blue
Can I take your hand, see what it might show me
On a summer Sunday on the boulevard
Would you tell me life's been treatin' you hard
Or walk on by, pretending you don't know me
You don't know me
You don't know me
You don't know me
You don't know me

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