he gets up each morning and he goes downtown
where everyone’s his boss and he’s lost in an angry land
he’s a little man
but then he comes uptown each evening to my tenement
uptown where folks don’t have to pay much rent
and when he’s there with me he can see that he’s everything
then he’s tall he don’t crawl he’s a king
downtown he’s just one of a million guys
he don’t get no breaks and he takes all they got to give
’cause he’s got to live
but then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high
uptown he knows that i am standing by
and when i take his hand there’s no man who could put him down
the world is sweet it’s at his feet when he’s uptown
whoaohohoh ohohoh
yeahyeah yeahyeah yeahyeahyeah
whoaoh whoaoh oh yeah
let me tell ya now
uptown where he can hold his head up high
uptown he knows that i am standing by
and when i take his hand there’s no man who could put him down
the world is sweet it’s at his feet when he’s uptown
whoaohohoh ohohoh
yeahyeah yeahyeah yeahyeahyeah
let me tell ya now uptown
whoaohohoh ohohoh
Artist: The Crystals
Year: 1962
Decade: 60s
Language: en
Word Count: 105