Avenues And Alleyways Lyrics - Singles - Tony Christie

Sleep like a baby, my little lady 

Dream till the sunrise creeps into your eyes 

Dream till the sunrise turns on the day 

In the avenues and alleyways 

While you sleep there's a whole world coming alive 

Able and his brother, fighting one another in and out of every dive 

The avenues and alleyways 

Where the strong and the quick alone can survive 

Look around the jungle, see the rough and tumble, listen to a squealer cry 

Then a little later in the morning paper read about the way he died 

Wake up, my pretty, go to the city 

Stay through the daytime safe in the sunshine 

Stay till the daytime turns into night 

In the avenues and alleyways 

Where a man's gotta work out which side he's on 

Any way he chooses chances are he loses, no one gets to live too long 

The avenues and alleyways 

Where the soul of a man is easy to buy 

Everybody's wheeling, everybody's steeling, all the low are living high 

Every city's got 'em, can we ever stop 'em? Some of us are gonna try