Uptown

She saw me walking down the streets of your fine city

It turned me on when she looked at me

And said, "Come here"

Now I don't usually talk to strangers

But she looked so pretty

What can I lose, if I, uh

Just give her a little ear?

What's up little girl?

I ain't got time to play

Baby didn't say too much

She said, "Are you gay?"

Kinda took me by surprise

I didn't know what to do

I just looked her in her eyes

And I said, "No, are you?"

Said to myself, said

She's just a crazy, crazy, crazy little mixed up dame

She's just a victim of society and all its games

Now where I come from

We don't let society tell us how it's supposed to be

Our clothes, our hair, we don't care

It's all about being there

Everybody's going uptown

That's where I want to be

Uptown

Set your mind free

Uptown

Got my body hot

Get down

I don't want to stop, no

As soon as we got there good times were rolling

White, Black, Puerto Rican, everybody just a freakin'

Good times were rolling

She started dancing in the streets

Ow, the girl, she's just gone mad, you know

She even made love to me

Ooh, the best night I ever had, ah yeah

I don't even talk to strangers, this time it's all right

See, she got me hot, ah, I couldn't stop, ah

Good times were rolling all night, all night, yeah

Now, where I come from we don't give a damn

We do whatever we please

It ain't about no downtown, nowhere bound, narrow minded drag

It's all about being free

Everybody's going uptown

It's where I want to be

Uptown

You can set your mind free, yeah

Uptown

Keep your body hot

Get down

I don't want to stop, no

Uptown (Oh, oh, yeah)

Uptown

Everybody's going, everybody's going

Everybody gotta, gotta, uptown (Now go-go-go, go-gotta go-go)

Uptown

Uptown (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, oh, now)

Uptown (Gotta go-go-go)

Baby, got to go, got to

Uptown

Come on, come on, you, you have to, you gotta go uptown (Oh, oh, oh, baby, oh yeah)