Uphill Mountain-Jackie Greene

[00:20.66]Big Joe Turner, Elmore James [00:25.18]street survivor selling walking canes [00:29.91]"Give your babies holy names for me" [00:36.60]I don’t know, but I’ve been told [00:40.82]you never grow up and you’ll never get old [00:45.27]you can watch the world being bought and sold [00:49.92]all on your T.V [00:57.20]Sometimes it gets a little rough [01:01.51]like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain [01:06.3]better stand tall if you’re gonna stand at all [01:10.74]and if you’re gonna fall, well you might as well fall [01:16.97]build a house, honey make it home [01:21.99]gonna make a place man where I can be alone [01:26.62]don't the yard look pretty when it's overgrown? [01:31.16]standing six feet tall [01:34.95]this ain’t a riot but it’s a living [01:40.49]you’ve got to take just what you are given [01:44.96]cause luck only matters with the cards and the women [01:49.48]and sometimes not at all [01:57.10]sometimes it gets a little rough [02:00.83]like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain [02:05.13]better stand tall if you’re gonna stand at all [02:09.46]and if you’re gonna fall well you might as well fall [02:42.79]Peeping tom said to Madame Rose [02:46.39]"I’ve seen you twice already without your clothes [02:51.19]what I suggest, honey what I propose [02:55.36]is that you see me without mine" [02:59.52]tell John Henry and Cassius Clay [03:04.03]swinging iron for a living is one hell of a way [03:08.35]but whatever you do don’t let your hammer stray [03:13.10]I believe we’ll be just fine [03:20.89]sometimes it gets a little rough [03:24.38]like the wheels made of steel going an uphill mountain [03:29.17]stand tall if you’re gonna stand at all [03:33.74]and if you’re gonna crawl well you might as well crawl [03:40.15]Oh, you might as well crawl