Been loving on the side With someone else's wife Now you didn't see the lights When the car pulled in the drive Someone opens the front door There's a big man looking sore Now you're running for your life So you jump the fence outside Now that's the back alley blues Yeah, the back alley blues Now they came in from the back And they came with great big sacks Yeah, they worked real fast They were gone in no time flat So when you came home late that night And you turned on all the lights Everything was gone They had jumped the fence backyard Now that's the back alley blues Yeah, the back alley blues The strangest kind of stories Always happen there Junkmen pass without a glory Late at night you best beware Dogs mark their territory And the cats are running scared It's a sordid purgatory It's a no man's land out there That's the back alley blues Yeah, the back alley blues I said the back alley blues Yeah, the back alley blues.