Uptown (Summer of Soul Soundtrack - Live at the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival)

Welcome to the heart of Harlem, Soulsville, USA
This is Tony Lawrence and fifty thousand beautiful people here in Mount Morris Park
And we are asking you to join us in the Soul Music Festival
Now from Mississippi, ladies and gentleman
The Chambers Brothers

Hey, do it to it, uh
Sock it, sock it to me, yeah
Hey, you like it like that, yeah
Uh, 'cause that's where it's at, yeah
Hey, do it to it

I'm goin' uptown to Harlem
To let my hair down in Harlem
If a taxi won't take me, I'll catch a train
I'll go underground, I'll get thеre just the same

Bеcause I'm goin' uptown to Harlem
I'm gon' let my hair down in Harlem

125th Street, now here I come
Get ready for me 'cause I'm comin' for fun
I'm gonna eat me some chitlins and some black-eyed peas
Some barbecued ribs and some collard greens

I'm gonna party for days in Harlem
I'll leave the downtown ways for Harlem

Because I'm goin' uptown to Harlem
To let my hair down in Harlem
If a taxi won't take me, I'll catch a train
Go underground, I'll get there just the same

I'm gonna take it to the Cape and the Shadow bar
I'm goin' up to town places and I'm down to swap
I'm gonna make it to the Playhouse and the red blues-ter too
I'm gonna step back, jack the truce and wear a suit

I'm gonna have me a ball in Harlem
And that ain't all in Harlem

'Cause I'm goin' uptown to Harlem
To let my hair down in Harlem

If a taxi won't take me, I'll catch a train
I'll go underground, I'll get there just the same
I'm gonna eat some chitlins and some black-eyed peas
Some barbecued ribs and some collard greens

I said I'm goin' uptown to Harlem
I'm gonna let my hair down in Harlem

I want everybody, everybody (Goin' uptown to Harlem)
We got to, got to, got to make it, yeah, yeah (Let my hair down in Harlem)
We got to go up to Harlem, and, and, yeah (Goin' uptown to Harlem)
We got to leave—, yeah (Gon' let my hair down in Harlem)
'Cause we've been partyin' for days, days (Goin' uptown to Harlem)
Come on and get yourself a— (Gon' let my hair down in Harlem)
Come on and meet me up at Harlem (Goin' uptown to Harlem)
Yeah (Gon' let my hair down in Harlem)
Hey, hey (Ayy)

Hey, sock it, sock it to me
Uh, you like it like that, yeah
Hey, that's where it's at, yeah

Hey, hey, man, we gotta get Brian somethin', yeah
Yeah, we gotta get him drummin' somethin', alright
Yeah, everybody, everybody gotta have some, alright?
You got it man, yeah

[Instrumental Break]

Hey, sock it, sock it to me
Hey, you like it like that, yeah
Oh, that's where it's at, yeah
Hey, one, one more time, yeah
Oh, yeah

Yeah, yeah, come on and meet me up at Harlem, yeah
Come on, come on and get yourself together, yeah
Yeah, and we can party for days, for days, yeah
We'll leave the downtown ways, yeah

[Instrumental Outro]