Uptown babies - Max Romeo

See the little lad, selling kisko?

Shouting, «Kisko pops, kisko pops

Kisko pops, kisko pops»

See the little lad, selling Star?

Shouting, «Star news, read the news

Read the news, read the news»

He is doing it you see

To help his mummy pay the fee

For little junior to go to school

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what hungry is like

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what suffering is like

They have mummy and daddy

Lot’s of toys to play with

Nanny and granny

Lots of friends to stay with

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what hungry is like

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what suffering is like

They have mummy and daddy

Lot’s of toys to play with

Nanny and granny

Lot’s of friends to stay with

Hear that little baby crying?

Yes she’s crying, she’s crying

She’s crying because she’s hungry

You can hear her mama saying

«It ain’t easy, ain’t easy

Ain’t easy when you’re poor, you see»

And speaking of life in the ghetto

Where survival is the motto

And putting it to you:

Poverty is a sin

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what hungry is like

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what suffering is like

They have mummy and daddy

Lot’s of toys to play with

Nanny and granny

Lot’s of friends to stay with

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what hungry is like

Uptown babies don’t cry

They don’t know what suffering is like

They have mummy and daddy

Lot’s of toys to play with

Nanny and granny

Lot’s of friends to stay with

Uptown babies don’t cry

Don’t cry, don’t cry

(Mummy and daddy)

They don’t know what suffering is like

(Mummy and daddy)

Uptown babies don’t cry

Don’t cry, don’t cry

(Mummy and daddy)

They don’t know what suffering is like