Uptown Blues - Jimmie Lunceford

Ya trying to rock it uptown But i don't wanna come down I'm Gonna try to pick it up now Oh well Stay a little longer Stare into the light Let the sound hold you Til the end of the night And if you pour another drink for me I'll be leaving you behind One thing you gotta know now I'm the wandering kind Feel it getting stronger Building inside Wanting it to crash through Like a wavering tide And the more you try to blink you'll be Lost in your mind Cuz if you're tryna rock uptown I'll be letting you slide

She saw me walking down the streets Of your fine city It kinda turned me on when she looked at me And said, "C'mere" 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 She said, "Are you gay?" Kinda took me by suprise I didn't know what to do I just looked her in her eyes And I said, "No, are u?" Said to myself, said "She's just a crazy, crazy, crazy Little mixed up dame. She's just a victim of society And all it's games." Now where I come from We don't let society Tell us how it's supposed to be Our clothes, our hair We don't care It's all about being there Everybody's going Uptown That's where I wanna be Uptown Set your mind free Uptown Got my body hot Get down I don't wanna stop, no As soon as we got there Good times were rolling White, Black, Puerto Rican Everybody just a-freakin' Good times were rolling She started dancing in the streets Ow, girl, she's just gone mad U know, she even made love to me Ooh, best night I ever had Ah yeah I never talk to strangers But this time it's all right See, she got me hot, ah I couldn't stop, ah Good times were rolling all night All night, yeah Now 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 Everybody's going Uptown It's where I wanna be Uptown U can set your mind free, yeah Uptown Keep your body hot Get down I don't wanna stop, no Uptown Ooh, ooh, yeah Uptown Everybody's going, everybody's going Everybody gotta gotta Uptown Now go-go-go, go-go-go They're going Uptown Uptown Yeah, yeah, now, all now Uptown Gotta go-go-go Uptown Yeah, gotta go, gotta go Uptown C'mon, c'mon, you U have to, you gotta go Uptown Oh yeah YEAH!

On the day when I was born daddy sat down and cried I had the mark just as plain as day, it could not be denied They say that Cain caught Abel rollin' loaded dice Ace of spades behind his ear and him not thinkin' twice Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye Half a cup of rock and rye Farewell to you old southern skies I'm on my way, on my way If all you've got to live for is what you left behind Get yourself a powder charge and seal that silver mine Lost my boots in transit, baby, pile of smokin' leather An ill retread to my feet and prayed for better weather Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye Half a cup of rock and rye Farewell to you old southern skies I'm on my way, on my way They say that when your ship comes in the first man takes the sails Second takes the afterdeck, the third, the planks and rails What's the point of callin' shots, this cue ain't straight in line Cue ball's made of styrofoam and no one's got the time Half-step, Mississippi uptown toodeloo Hello, baby, I'm gone, goodbye Half a cup of rock and rye Farewell to you old southern skies I'm on my way, on my way On my way Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river Across the Rio Grandeeo, across the lazy river