Uptown

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 (he can see he's everything)

That he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king

Downtown

He's just one of a million dimes

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

'Cause he's gotta live

But then he comes Uptown

Where he can hold his head up high

Uptown

He knows that I'll be standin' by

And when I take his hand

There's no man that can put him down

The world is sweet

It's at his feet

When he's Uptown

The world is sweet

It's at his feet

When he's Uptown!