it had been a rickie lee jones song they 'd danced to , a few lines in the song that always got to jimmy for some reason he did n't understand `` well , good-bye , boys/oh my buddy boys/oh my sad-eyed sinatras '' he lip-synced them to annabeth as they swayed , feeling loose and at ease for the first time in years , lip-synced again at the chorus along with rickie 's mournful wisp of a voice , `` so long , lone-ly ave-nue , '' smiling into annabeth 's crystal green eyes , and she 'd smiled , too , in a soft , hidden way she had that cracked his heart , the two of them acting like this was their hundredth dance instead of their first .