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Uptown
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The Crystals
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Written by Cynthia Weil and Barry Mann
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Peaked at # 13 in 1962
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Produced by Phil Spector. One of Spector's first major hits to use castanets as a
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percussion effect. According to legend, this song was originally given to Tony Orlando, who
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turned it down only to watch it become a Top 15 hit by The Crystals.
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He gets up each morning and he goes downtown
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Where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land
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He's a little man
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But then he comes uptown each ev'nin' to my tenement
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Uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent
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And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything
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Then he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king
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Downtown he's just one of a million guys
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He don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give
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'cause he's got to live
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But then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high
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Uptown he knows that I am standing by
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And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down
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The world is sweet, it's at his feet when he's uptown
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Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
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Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
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Whoa-oh, whoa-oh, oh-yeah
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Let me tell ya now
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Uptown where he can hold his head up high
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Uptown he knows that I am standing by
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And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down
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The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown
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Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
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Yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah, yeah-yeah-yeah
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Let me tell ya now, uptown
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FADE
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Whoa-oh-oh-oh, oh-oh-oh
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Uptown
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| The Crystals |
