Tony Christie - Avenues and Alleyways 1973

Tony Christie - Avenues and Alleyways 1973

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 Able and his brother, fighting one another

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.

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[ormandroyd999]

The protectors great tv in its time

[RAIDERS58th]

This guy has power without effort.

[nv7103]

WOW they should play that for the Olympics next year - it so describes modern Britain. Timeless classic, brilliant singer.

[MrLawman10]

@zenboy64 , iv,e got one and it still fits me almost 40 years later,

[RobertDeutsch100]

@zenboy64 i want it too :)

[zenboy64]

I want that shirt!

[stellybabe]

you lot can analize for all time but he was a Mr Showbiz and I love him :)

[iceicebaby1006]

@ejslurb2007 & @Dormentian - guys u are not the only ones who remembers the protectors ..I may have been 9 or 10 when the series aired in Singapore TV and yes Tony Anholt was in Space 1999 as well...See it you can remember some other English productions in or around the same era....U.F.O. Randall and Hopkirk and Dear Mother, Love Albert...hmm all from my childhood days

[nylonTS]

@3rdmusketeer I do agree

[3rdmusketeer]

I think Tony Christie is one of the most under rated singers, he has a unique sound and is a professional artist, they don't make em like him any more :)