Uptown (7" Single Edit)

[Verse 1]

She saw me walking down the streets of your fine city

Kinda turned me on when she looked at me and said – "Come here"

Now I don't usually talk to strangers

But she looked so pretty

What can I lose if I, uh, just give her a little ear?

"What’s up, little girl?

I ain't got time to play"

Baby didn't say too much, ah

She said, "Are you gay?"

Kinda took me by surprise

I didn’t know what to do

I just looked her in her eyes

And I said, "No – are you?"

Said to myself, said, 

"She's just a crazy, crazy, crazy

Little mixed-up dame

She's just a victim of society and all its games"

[Pre-Chorus]

Now whеre I come from

We don't lеt society

Tell us how it's supposed to be

Our clothes, our hair – we don't care

It's all about being there

[Chorus]

Everybody's going

Uptown

That’s where I want to be

Uptown

Set your mind free, yeah

Uptown

Got my body hot

Get down

I don’t want to stop! Yeah

[Verse 2]

As soon as we got there

Good times were rolling

White, Black, Puerto Rican, everybody just a-freakin'

Good times were rollin’

She started dancing in the streets – oh

The girl, she's just gone mad – you know

She even made love to me, ooh

The best that I ever had, oh yeah

I don't usually talk to strangers

This time it's alright

She got me hot, ah

I couldn’t stop, ah

Good times were rollin' all night – all night, yeah

[Pre-Chorus]

Where I come from

We don't give a damn

We do whatever we please

It ain't about no downtown, nowhere-bound, narrow-minded drag

It's all about being free

[Chorus]

Everybody's going

Uptown

That's where I want to be

Uptown

If you set your mind free, yeah

Uptown

Keep your body hot

Get down

I don't want to stop, no

[Outro]

Uptown (Oh, ha, yeah…)

Uptown

Everybody's going, everybody's going

Everybody got to,  got to

Uptown

(Got to go-go-go...)

Got to go (Oh...)

Uptown