He gets up each mornin' 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 up town where he don't have to pay much rent
And when he's there with me he can see that he's ev'rything
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 me no breaks and takes all they've 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'll be standing by
And when I take his hand there's no man that could put him down
The world is sweet it's at his feet when he's uptown
Woh oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah woh oh oh oh oh oh
Let me tell ya now uptown where he can hold his head up high uptown he knows that I'll be standing by
And when I take his hand there's no man that could put him down
The world is sweet it's at his feet when he's uptown woh oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah
Let me tell ya now uptown woh oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah