Avenues And Alleyways chords by Tony Christie

Chords with lyrics

Peaked at 37 in the UK charts in 1973. N/C = no chord.

Intro = C majorC G+G FF G+G C majorC G+G FF G+G

Verse 1
C majorC         C majorC
Sleep like a baby
Bb majorBb    FF  Bb majorBb FF
my little lady
C majorC           C majorC
Dream till the sunrise
Bb majorBb     FF
creeps into your eyes
F minorFm       C majorC    AbAb      G+G
Dream till the sunrise turns on the day

Chorus
N/C        C majorC    E minorEm
In the Avenues and Alleyways
     Bb majorBb             FF
While you sleep there's a whole world coming alive
FF           C majorC
Able and his brother, fighting one another
FF       G+G   C majorC
In and out of every dive
C majorC             E minorEm
The Avenues and Alleyways
     Bb majorBb          FF
Where the strong and the quick alone can survive
FF           C majorC
Look around the jungle see the rough and tumble
FF      G+G    C majorC
Listen to a squealer cry
FF          C majorC
Then a little later in the morning paper
FF       G+G   C majorC  C majorC G+G  C majorC G+G FF G+G
read about the way he died

Verse 2
C majorC         C majorC
Wake up my pretty
Bb majorBb    FF  Bb majorBb FF
go to the city
C majorC            C majorC
Stay through the daytime
Bb majorBb     FF
safe in the sunshine
F minorFm      C majorC    AbAb       G+G
Stay till the daytime turns into the night

Chorus
N/C        C majorC     E minorEm
In the Avenues and Alleyways
    Bb majorBb            FF
Where a mans gotta work out which side he's on
FF         C majorC
Any way he chooses chances are he loses
FF       G+G    C majorC
No one gets to live too long
C majorC             E minorEm
The avenues and alleyways
     Bb majorBb        FF
Where the soul of a man is easy to buy
FF          C majorC
Everybody's wheeling everybody's stealing
FF        G+G   C majorC
All the low are living high
FF          C majorC
Every city's got 'em can we ever stop 'em
FF       G+G   C majorC
Some of us are gonna try.