Skid Row (Downtown) Original Off-Broadway Cast of Little Shop of Horrors (Ft. Ellen Greene, Hy Anzell, Jennifer Leigh Warren, Lee Wilkof, Leilani Jones, Martin P. Robinson & Sheila Kay Davis)

[CRYSTAL]
Alarm goes off at seven
And you start uptown
You put in your eight hours
For the powers that have always been

[RONETTE, spoken]
Sing it, child

[CRYSTAL]
Till it's five P.M

[WINO #1]
Then you go

[CRYSTAL, RONNETE, CHIFFON]
Downtown
Where the folks are broke
You go downtown
Where your life's a joke
You go downtown
When you buy your token
You go
Home to skid row (Home to skid row)

[WINO #1]
Yes, you go
[COMPANY]
Downtown

[CRYSTAL]
Where the cabs don't stop

[COMPANY]
Downtown

[MUSHNIK]
Where the food is slop

[COMPANY]
Downtown
Where the hop-heads flop
In the snow
Down on Skid Row

[GIRLS]
Uptown you cater to a million jerks
Uptown you're messengers and mailroom clerks
Eating all your lunches at the hot dog carts
The bosses take your money
And they break your hearts

Uptown you cater to a million whores
You disinfect terrazzo on their bathroom floors
Your morning's tribulation
Afternoon's a curse
And five o'clock is even worse