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 ev'nin' to my tenement
Uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent
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
Whoah,
Yeah, yeah,
Let me tell you 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
Whoah,
Yeah,
Let me tell you now, uptown
Yeah, whoah
Uptown - Graham Blvd.