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 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 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
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