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 tentament Uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything The man is 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 And uptown he knows I'm gonna be standing by And when I take his hand there's no man who can put him down, down, down Oh, the world's so sweet at his feet when he's uptown Whoa-oo-oh-whoa When he's uptown Whoa-oo-whoa-oo-whoa-oh-oh
Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't say nothin' bad about my baby Don't!