Peaked at 37 in the UK charts in 1973. N/C = no chord.
Intro = C G F G C G F G
Verse 1
C C
Sleep like a baby
Bb F Bb F
my little lady
C C
Dream till the sunrise
Bb F
creeps into your eyes
Fm C Ab G
Dream till the sunrise turns on the day
Chorus
N/C C Em
In the Avenues and Alleyways
Bb F
While you sleep there's a whole world coming alive
F C
Able and his brother, fighting one another
F G C
In and out of every dive
C Em
The Avenues and Alleyways
Bb F
Where the strong and the quick alone can survive
F C
Look around the jungle see the rough and tumble
F G C
Listen to a squealer cry
F C
Then a little later in the morning paper
F G C C G C G F G
read about the way he died
Verse 2
C C
Wake up my pretty
Bb F Bb F
go to the city
C C
Stay through the daytime
Bb F
safe in the sunshine
Fm C Ab G
Stay till the daytime turns into the night
Chorus
N/C C Em
In the Avenues and Alleyways
Bb F
Where a mans gotta work out which side he's on
F C
Any way he chooses chances are he loses
F G C
No one gets to live too long
C Em
The avenues and alleyways
Bb F
Where the soul of a man is easy to buy
F C
Everybody's wheeling everybody's stealing
F G C
All the low are living high
F C
Every city's got 'em can we ever stop 'em
F G C
Some of us are gonna try.
