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Artist: The Everly Brothers
Canonical path: /everly-brothers-the/uptight
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Uptight
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Uptight
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Baby, everything is all right, uptight, goodbye - everybody say it
Baby, everything is all right, uptight, out of sight
I'm a poor man's son, from across the railroad track
Only shirt I own is hangin' on my back
But I'm the envy of every single guy
‘Cause I'm the apple of my girl's eye
When we go out steppin’ on the town for a while
Money's low and my suit's out of style
But it's all right, if my clothes aren't new
Out of sight, because my heart is true
She says, baby, everything is all right, uptight, out of sight
She says, baby, everything is all right, uptight, yeah yeah yeah out of sight
You got it
She's a pearl of a girl, I guess that's what you might say
I guess her folks brought her up that way
The right side of the tracks she was born and raised *Stevie omits this part here.
In a great big old house, full of butlers and maids
She says no one is better than I
I know I'm just an average guy
I’m no football hero or a smooth Don Juan
Got empty pockets, you see I'm a poor man's son
Can’t give her the things that money can buy
But I'll never, never, never make my baby cry
And it's all right, what I can't do
Out of sight, because my heart is true
She says, baby everything is all right, uptight,
everybody put their hands together out of sight
Baby, everything is all right, uptight, out of sight - yeah
Don’t you know, baby, so much baby so much honey, yeah yeah
And it’s all me and don’t you know
It’s love, love, love
Everybody say, love, love, love
Tell me yeah, love, love, love
One more time, say –
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