Biography:
Eva Narcissus Boyd (June 29, 1943 – April 10, 2003), known by the stage name of Little Eva, was an American pop singer.
Born in Belhaven, North Carolina, she moved to the Brighton Beach section of Brooklyn, New York, at a young age. Although some sources claim that her stage name was inspired by a character from the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin, she stated in an interview that she was named after her aunt, which prompted her family to call her "Little Eva.
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Uptown:Little Eva.
Album - Llllloco-Motion -
on DIMENSION Records in 1962.
INTRO: Bm
Bm
He gets up each morning and he goes downtown,
D
where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land..
Gb
he's a little man..
#1.
B
But then, he comes uptown each evening to my tenement,
Abm
uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent.
E Abm
And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything,
G Em Dbm B
then he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king.
#2.
Bm
Downtown he's just one of a million guys,
D
he don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give..
Gb
cause he's got to live.
CHORUS:
B
But then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high,
Abm
uptown he knows that I'll be standing by.
E Abm
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down.
G B
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown.
(INTERLUDE:) Bm D Gb
CHORUS:
B
Let me tell ya now, uptown where he can hold his head up high,
Abm
uptown he knows that I'll be standing by.
E Abm
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down.
G Em B
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptooooown.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
Album - Llllloco-Motion -
on DIMENSION Records in 1962.
INTRO: Bm
Bm
He gets up each morning and he goes downtown,
D
where everyone's his boss and he's lost in an angry land..
Gb
he's a little man..
#1.
B
But then, he comes uptown each evening to my tenement,
Abm
uptown where folks don't have to pay much rent.
E Abm
And when he's there with me he can see that he's everything,
G Em Dbm B
then he's tall, he don't crawl, he's a king.
#2.
Bm
Downtown he's just one of a million guys,
D
he don't get no breaks and he takes all they got to give..
Gb
cause he's got to live.
CHORUS:
B
But then he comes uptown where he can hold his head up high,
Abm
uptown he knows that I'll be standing by.
E Abm
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down.
G B
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptown.
(INTERLUDE:) Bm D Gb
CHORUS:
B
Let me tell ya now, uptown where he can hold his head up high,
Abm
uptown he knows that I'll be standing by.
E Abm
And when I take his hand there's no man who could put him down.
G Em B
The world is sweet, it's at his feet, when he's uptooooown.
A sixties smash from Kraziekhat.
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