Sunday Afternoons on Wisdom Ave.

A modest triple decker in a section that was working class

Not a lot of company but we would go there after Mass

Lace curtains in the windows that had been there since the last great war

They were on the first one and the Mulligans lived on the second floor

Sunday driving in the big sedan

Soup and sandwich on the tv stand

Glad to be there it was nice to have

Sunday afternoons on Wisdom Ave

There was noting in the pantry and we can't be in the parlor there

It's really nothing fancy honey here is half a dollar dear

A John F Kennedy coin that you and your brother both can share

Just not the type of people that are ever gonna to put on airs

Sunday driving in the big sedan

Soup and sandwich on the tv stand

Glad to be there it was nice to have

Sunday afternoons on Wisdom Ave

Outside on the playground there's a pick-up game of hoops

Picked up the Sunday Journal at the Greeks

We would watch the Filipinos with the yoyo's on the stoop

But no not on your life six days a week

No one was ever listening to anybody else

We only ever knew what we were told

Only on Wisdom Avenue on Sunday afternoons

Wisdom Ave's where everything grew old

Sunday driving in the big sedan

Soup and sandwich on the tv stand

Had to be there just to see first hand

Whatever had happened to my old man

Sunday driving in the big sedan

Soup and sandwich on the tv stand

Glad to be there it was nice to have

Sunday afternoons on Wisdom Ave