Skid Row (Downtown) [In the Style of Little Shop of Horrors (Karaoke Version Teaching Vocal)]-Musical Creations Studio Musicians (Karaoke)

[ti:Skid Row] [ar:The Hit Crew] [al:The Ultimate Collection of Showtunes, Vol. 10] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Skid Row (Downtown) [In the Style of Little Shop of Horrors (Karaoke Version Teaching Vocal)] - Musical Creations Studio Musicians (Karaoke) [00:06.28]Alarm goes off at seven [00:09.83] [00:10.80]And you start up-town [00:13.14] [00:16.74]You put in your eight hours [00:19.26]For the powers [00:20.41]That have always been [00:22.64] [00:25.16]Sing it child [00:26.04] [00:27.13]'Til it's five-pm [00:31.39] [00:36.40]"Then you go " [00:37.65]Downtown [00:37.97] [00:39.05]Where the folks are broke You go [00:41.10]Downtown [00:41.66] [00:42.34]Where your life's a joke You go [00:44.43]Downtown [00:45.01] [00:45.70]Where you buy a token You go [00:48.45] [00:49.96]Home to Skid Row [00:51.44] [00:56.74]"Yes you go " [00:57.98]Downtown [00:58.52] [00:59.47]Where the cabs don't stop [01:01.42]Downtown [01:01.96] [01:02.80]Where the food is slop [01:04.11] [01:04.86]Downtown [01:05.23] [01:06.34]Where the hop-heads flop in the snow [01:08.43] [01:10.17]Down on Skid Row [01:11.85] [01:15.07]Uptown you cater to a million jerks [01:17.46] [01:18.24]Uptown you're messengers [01:20.12]And mailroom clerks [01:21.18] [01:21.89]Eating all your lunches [01:23.24]At the hot-dog carts [01:25.21]The bosses take your money [01:26.68]And they break your hearts [01:28.70]And Uptown you cater [01:29.95]To a million whores [01:31.00] [01:31.98]You disinfect terrazzo [01:33.43]On their bathroom floors [01:34.63] [01:35.43]The jobs are really menial [01:36.92]You make no bread [01:38.01] [01:38.73]And then at five-o'clock you head [01:40.38]"By subway " [01:41.35] [01:42.05]Downtown [01:42.56] [01:43.62]Where the guys are drips [01:44.95] [01:45.48]Downtown [01:45.92] [01:46.89]Where they rip your slips [01:48.22] [01:48.98]Downtown [01:49.73] [01:50.53]Where relationships are no go [01:52.33] [01:54.54]Down on Skid Row [01:56.20] [02:09.72]Poor all my life I've [02:11.79]Always been poor [02:13.01] [02:14.03]I keep askin' God what I'm for [02:16.49] [02:17.38]And he tells me "Gee I'm not sure " [02:19.79] [02:21.09]"Sweep that floor kid " [02:22.70] [02:23.21]Oh I started life as an orphan [02:26.65] [02:27.23]A child of the street here on Skid [02:30.04]Row He took me in gave me shelter [02:34.01]A bed crust of bread and a job [02:36.63]Treats me like dirt and [02:38.74]Calls me a slob [02:40.05]Which I am [02:41.28] [02:43.73]So I live [02:46.06]Downtown [02:47.81]That's your home address you live [02:50.96]Downtown [02:51.62] [02:52.35]When your life's a mess you live [02:55.41]Downtown [02:57.18]Where depression's just status quo [03:00.24] [03:02.84]Down on Skid Row [03:05.29]Someone show me a way to [03:07.57]Get outta here [03:08.85] [03:09.66]'Cause I constantly pray [03:11.95]I'll get outta here [03:13.46] [03:14.20]Please won't somebody say [03:16.33]I'll get outta here [03:18.00] [03:18.62]Someone gimmie my shot [03:21.06]Or I'll rot here [03:22.33] [03:22.89]Downtown [03:23.64]Show me how and I will [03:25.24]I'll get outta here Downtown [03:27.64]I'll start climbin' up hill [03:29.36]And get outta here [03:31.19]'Cause it's dangerous [03:32.68]Downtown [03:32.95]Someone tell me I still [03:34.33]Could get outta here [03:35.92]Someone tell lady luck [03:37.21]That I'm stuck here [03:39.83]Gee it sure would be swell to [03:42.59]Get outta here [03:43.35]Bid the gutter farewell and get [03:44.98]Outta here [03:45.57] [03:46.23]I'd move heaven and hell to get [03:48.06]Outta Skid [03:48.72] [03:49.83]I'd do I don't know what to get [03:51.74]Outta Skid [03:52.37] [03:53.29]But a hell of a lot to get outta Skid [03:55.62] [03:56.65]People tell me there's not [03:57.82]A way outta Skid [03:58.93] [04:00.21]But believe me I gotta get outta Skid [04:03.07]Row