He gets up each morning and he goes downtown, where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land
He's an angry man
But then he comes Uptown 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
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