Uptown:The Crystals.
#18 on R&B and #13 on BB Hot 100
on PHILLIES Records in 1962.
INTRO:
Cm
He gets up each morning and he goes downtown,
D#
where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land..
G
he's a little man..
#1.
G C
But then, he comes uptown each evening to my tenement,
Am Em7 Am
uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent.
F Am
And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything,
G# Fm C
then he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king.
#2.
Cm
Downtown he's just one of a million guys,
D#
he don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give..
G
cause he's got to live.
#3.
G C
But then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high,
Am Em7 Am
uptown he knows that I am standing by.
F Am
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down.
G# Fm C
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown.
(INTERLUDE:)
C Am F
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh..yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah..yeah-yeah-
G7
yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah.
#3.
G7 C
Let me tell ya now, uptown where he can hold his head up high,
Am Em7 Am
uptown he knows that I am standing by.
F Am
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down.
G# Fm C
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown.
OUTRO:
C Am C
Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh..yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah..
G7 C
let me tell ya, now, uptownnnn..(Fade.)
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.