Standard (EADGBE)
Alarm goes off at seven
And youstart uptown.
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been.
Till it's five P.M.
[/]Then You go
Downtown Where the folks are broke.
You go Downtown Where your life's a joke.
You go Downtown When you buy your token,
you go [/]Home to skid row.
(Home to skid row.)
[/]Yes, you go
Downtown Where the cabs don't stop
Downtown Where the food is slop
Downtown Where the hop-heads flop
in the snow [/]Down on Skid Row
Uptown you cater to a million jerks.
Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks
eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts.
The bosses take your money and they break your hearts.
Uptown you cater to a million whores.
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors.
Your job is really menial and you make no bread
then a five o'clock you head...
[/]By subway...
Downtown Where the guys are drips.
Downtown Where they rip your slips.
Downtown Where relationships are no go.
[/]Down on skid row
Down on skid row
Down on skid row
Down on skid row!
Poor! All my life I've always been poor.
I keep asking God what I'm for,
and he tells me "Gee, I'm not sure
Sweep that [/]floor, kid."
Oh, I started life as an orphan,
a child of the street
Here on skid row.
He took me in, gave me shelter, a bed,
Crust of bread and a job
Treats me like dirt, calls me a slob, Which I am.
So I live
Downtown That's your home address.
Ya live Downtown When your life's a mess.
Ya live Downtown Where depressions' jes' Status Quo.
[/]Down on skid row
Someone show me a way to get outa here,
'cause I constantly pray I'll get outa here
Please, won't somebody say I'll get outa here
Someone gimme my shot or I'll [/]rot here.
Show me how and I will, I'll get out-a here.
I'll start climbin' up hill and get out-a here.
Someone tell me I still could get out-a here.
Someone tell lady luck that I'm [/]stuck here.
Gee it sure would be swell to get out-a here
Bid the gutter fairwell and get out-a here
I'd move heaven and hell to get out-a skid
I'd do I dunno what to get out-a skid
but a hell of a lot to get out-a skid
people tell me there's not a way out-a skid
but believe me I gotta get out-a skid row.