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 mans 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.