The Crystals - Uptown lyrics

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Uptown Trk 9 Disc 1

(B. Mann, C. Weil)

The Crystals

Barbara Alston - lead vocal with Dee Dee Kennibrew

Mary Thomas, Patricia Wright, and Myrna Gerrard.

P. Spector - guitar. Leon Russell on keyboards, Larry Knechtel on bass, Barney Kessel and Glen Campbell on guitars, Sonny Bono on percussion, Steve Douglas on horns, Lou Blackburn on trombone, Hal Blaine on drums, and stirring it all together was arranger Jack Nitzsche.

Phillies single #102

Recorded: Mira Sound Studios, NY

Engr: B. MacMeeken, Arr: P. Spector, H. Levine.

Pop Chart #13 March 31, 1962

Album: 'Back to Mono' (1058-1969)

ABKCO Records NY, 1991

Transcriber: Awcantor@aol.com

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'll be 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-whoa

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah

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 who could put him down

The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-oh

Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah

Let me tell ya, now

FADES-

Uptown

Whoa-oh-oh-oh-ooh.

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