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Every film is driven by it's music to some extent, and the Protectors is not excluded. The opening theme is exciting and sets
the tone for the episode to come. The composer was a John Cameron, a film composer who still works in the industry writing
music for plays, film and television. The music was quite beautiful and to my knowledge he has never been released on CD or
record. Cameron was also responsible for the music in The Persueders and The Investigator. I hope to provide snippets on this
site when possible, so stay tuned.
Here are the lyrics to the classic end theme song. This song was a fairly succsesful chart hit in its day. #42 on the
national chart I beleive. You can hear the song in the multimedia section.
Avenues and Alleyways
Sung by Tony Christie
Written and produced by Mitch Murray and Peter Callender for City Hall
Ltd.
Published by ATV Music Ltd
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
Abel 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 dealing
All the low are living high
Every city's got em
Can we ever stop em
Some of us've gotta try.
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