each morning my man 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 evenin 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 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 with me 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 and at his feet when he s with me uptown whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah let me tell ya now uptown whoa oh oh oh oh oh oh he knows that i ll be waiting there he knows he ll find someone who cares he knows that he can be my king he knows that the joy that my love bring ooh yeah mmm oh