Uptown (video)

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1. He gets up each morning and he goes downtown,

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where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land.

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he's a little man.

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But then, he comes uptown each evening to my tenement,

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uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent.

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And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything,

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then he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king !

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2. Downtown he's just one of a million guys,

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he don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give,

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’cause he's got to live.

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But then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high,

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uptown he knows that I am standing by.

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And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down,

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the world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown.

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+ Whoa-oh, yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah

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Let me tell you now !

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+ Uptown where he can hold his head up high,

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uptown he knows that I am standing by.

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And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down,

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the world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown.

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+ Whoa oh, yeah-yeah-yeah !

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Let me tell you, now ! Uptown ….

(The Crystals)