Intro = C G F G C G F G Verse 1 C C Sleep like a baby Bb F Fb 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 G read about the way he died Verse 2 C C Wake up my pretty Bb F Fb 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.