Standard (EADGBE)

 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 mad

 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 at 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-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa

 Yeah yeah 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-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa

 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Let me tell ya now

Uptown

Uptown chords (version 2)

The Crystals

 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 mad

 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 at 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-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa

 Yeah yeah 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-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa-oa

 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

 Yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

Let me tell ya now

Uptown