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 evening 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 (he can see he's everything) That he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king Downtown He's just one of a million dimes He don't get no breaks and he takes all they've got to give 'Cause he's gotta live But then he comes Uptown Where he can hold his head up high Uptown He knows that I'll be standin' by And when I take his hand There's no man that can put him down The world is sweet It's at his feet When he's Uptown The world is sweet It's at his feet When he's Uptown!