Avenues And Alleyways

Intro = C G F G  C G F G

Verse 1
C                 C
Sleep like a baby
C7        F    C7 F
my little lady
C                      C
Dream till the sunrise
C7          F
creeps into your eyes
Fm             C       Fm           G
Dream till the sunrise turns on the day

Chorus
N/C                C        Em
In the Avenues and Alleyways
          C7                          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
          C7                    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
C7        F    C7 F
go to the city
C                        C
Stay through the daytime
C7          F
safe in the sunshine
Fm            C       Fm             G
Stay till the daytime turns into the night

Chorus
N/C                C         Em
In the Avenues and Alleyways
        C7                        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
          C7               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.