Uptown lyrics

Artist  : The Crystals 
Song : Uptown



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Uptown
The Crystals
Written by Cynthia Weil
and Barry Mann

Peaked at # 13 in
1962
Produced by Phil Spector. One of
Spector's first major hits to use castanets as
a
percussion effect. According to legend, this
song was originally given to Tony Orlando,
who
turned it down only to watch it become a
Top 15 hit by The Crystals.


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

Whoa-oh-oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah,
yeah-yeah-yeah
Whoa-oh, whoa-oh,
oh-yeah

Let me tell ya 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

Whoa-oh-oh-oh,
oh-oh-oh
Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah,
yeah-yeah-yeah

Let me tell ya now,
uptown
FADE
Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh