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's up and away
And he takes
All they've 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'll be 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
Woh-oh-oh-oh
Oh-oh-oh
Yeah yeah yeah yeah
Let me tell you now
Uptown where he can
Hold his head up high
Uptown he knows that
I'll be 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
Woh-oh-oh-oh
Yeah yeah yeah
Let me tell ya now
Uptown
Yeah yeah yeah