Uphill Mountain-Jackie Greene

[ti:Uphill Mountain] [ar:Jackie Greene] [al:Giving Up the Ghost] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Uphill Mountain - Jackie Greene (杰基·格林) [00:21.48]Big Joe Turner Elmore James [00:25.86]Street survivor selling walking canes [00:30.77]"Give your babies holy names for me" [00:36.89]Now I don't know but I've been told [00:41.71]You never grow up and you'll never get old [00:45.70]You can watch the world being bought and sold [00:50.83]All on your T V [00:52.40] [00:58.09]Sometimes it gets a little rough [01:01.71]Like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain [01:06.52]Better stand tall if you're gonna stand at all [01:11.09]And if you're gonna fall well you might as well fall [01:18.59]Build a house honey make it home [01:22.21]Gonna make a place man where I can be alone [01:26.78]Don't the yard look pretty when it's overgrown [01:31.77]Standing six feet tall [01:36.73]This ain't a riot but it's a living [01:41.29]You've got to take just what you are given [01:45.04]Cause luck only matters with the cards and the women [01:49.32]And sometimes not at all [01:57.30]Sometimes it gets a little rough [02:00.86]Like the wheel's made of steel going an uphill mountain [02:05.23]Better stand tall if you're gonna stand at all [02:10.11]And if you're gonna fall well you might as well fall [02:15.07] [02:42.56]Peeping tom said to Madame Rose [02:46.37]"I've seen you twice already without your clothes [02:50.81]What I suggest honey what I propose [02:54.87]Is that you see me without mine" [03:00.46]Tell John Henry and Cassius Clay [03:04.02]Swinging iron for a living is one hell of a way [03:08.45]But whatever you do don't let your hammer stray [03:13.33]I believe we'll be just fine [03:17.26]Sometimes it gets a little rough [03:24.40]Like the wheels made of steel going an uphill mountain [03:28.89]Stand tall if you're gonna stand at all [03:33.76]And if you're gonna crawl well you might as well crawl [03:40.20]Yes you might as well crawl