A red sun rolling down a gray sky
  And the frogs and dogs and night birds then,
  Started up singing sweet country lullaby.
  You see that patch of city lights -
  Somewhere in there's Cotton Avenue -
  That's where I'm going to take myself tonight..
  With a spit shine on my dancing shoes
  If you've got a place like that to go
  You just have to go there
  If you've go no place special
  Then, you must go no place special
  I guess it's just the summer in young blood
  Ripe and juicy in the young blood
  Teasing to go down to...
  Cotton Avenue
  If you got a place like there to go
  You know you got to go there
  If you got no place special
  Well then you just go no place special
  You see that summer storm brewing in the summer sky
  By the time it hits here I'll be dancing high and dry
  To rhythm and blues
  On Cotton Avenue
  Poor boys'll be hanging around outside in the street
  They got all the latest words
  They're dancing to the latest beat
  While they're hustling and sizing you
  On Cotton Avenue
  If you got a place like that to go
  You just have to go here
  If you got no place special
  Well my dear
  You just go no place...special