Avenues And Alleyways

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