INTRO: 

    DO DO DO DO DO DO DO   LA  DEE DA DA DA DA DA
     
 VERSE 1:    Tell you about a little place i know called Church Alley St.   
      It was a great place for fifteen years
      It holds my childhood  memories.
       Every day id go out to play if you were looking for me
       You would find me there.
        
    VERSE 2:    One thing I remember
         My life was full of security.
          We had a great big silver DELTA 88 and the perfect little family.
   
    PRE CHORUS:   But then one day I realized that things just weren't the same.
                     You have to grow old with the changes
                      But my spirit keeps on saying.
   
     CHORUS: TAKE ME. TO CHURCH ALLEY STREET. YEAH.
    
      VERSE:     la dee da da da da da   la dee da da

                         We played games and called each other names.
                          And sometimes wed meet at the neighbors house 
                          And wed sleep out underneath the summer trees.
                           And when we played on those roller skates
                           It was a time when we were free.
                            You know I would have LORD, if I could have flown,
                            But it was the gravity that stopped me.

         PRE-CHORUS: Then one day I realized that things just weren't the same.
                                     You have to grow old with the changes but my spirit 
                                    keeps on saying.

          CHORUS:      TAKE ME. TO CHURCH ALLEY ST.
                                  I CANT FORGET IT.
                                   I WONT LOSE IT.
                                   I GOT THE MEMORIES IN MY MIND.
                                    TAKE ME.  ITS WHERE I WANNA BE.........

            ACOUSTIC GUITAR BREAK:   ITS WHERE I WANNA BE......(FADING)

             VERSE 3:  But the thing that I remember the most.
                                That my heart holds so dear.
                                 Is the church at the end of the alley.
                                 I can feel the warmth from here.
                                 Of the sunshine breaking thru the stained glass windows.
                                 You know I knelt and prayed so many sundays
                                  I can hear their voices singing in my mind.
                                  Every sunday morning, my mom would walk me to 
                                    sunday school.
                                  Where I learned about jesus the angels and GOD 
                                     and even learned the golden rule.
                          
               PRE CHORUS: But the church went empty. 
                                           The music was gone and 
                                            The people went away.
                                             I have to stop when I pass it by,
                                             I can feel my spirit saying.
      
                CHORUS:        TAKE ME. TO CHURCH ALLEY ST.
                                          I CANT FORGET IT.
                                          I WONT LOSE IT.
                                          I GOT THE MEMORY IN MY MIND.
                                           TAKE ME.

                                             ITS WHERE I WANNA BE.

                   OUTRO:     Tell you bout a little place I know called
                                        Church Alley St........... la  dee da daaaa    aahhhh..