I'm a striver from up on Striver's Row and I'm jivin', I'm very best I know but hard times got things topsy-turvyOh, Lady Luck is the meanest chick in town, I know it because she brought me down, hard times got things topsy-turvyYou know once I had lots and lots of money, and I used to dress up so jubilee, but now I'm on my uppers, and tough luck may be but it won't get in my hairI'm a striver from up on Striver's Row and I'm jivin', I'm very best I know but hard times got things topsy-turvyYou know once I had lots and lots of money, and I used to dress up so jubilee, but now I'm on my uppers, and tough luck may be but it won't get in my hairI'm a striver from up on Striver's Row and I'm jivin', I'm very best I know but hard times got things topsy-turvyYou know once I had lots and lots of money, and I used to dress up so jubilee, but now I'm on my uppers, and tough luck may be but it won't get in my hairI'm a striver from up on Striver's Row and I'm jivin', I'm very best I know but hard times got things topsy-turvyYou know once I had lots and lots of money, and I used to dress up so jubilee, but now I'm on my uppers, and tough luck may be but it won't get in my hairI'm a striver from up on Striver's Row and I'm jivin', I'm very best I know but hard times got things topsy-turvyYou know once I had lots and lots of money, and I used to dress up so jubilee, but now I'm on my uppers, and tough luck may be but it won't get in my hairI'm a striver from up on Striver's Row and I'm jivin', I'm very best I know but hard times got things topsy-turvyOh, Jack, I'm sort of beat from my chains now, so you better hit the road, because things are still topsy-turvyThings are a little beat on the turf now, Jack, but things are still topsy-turvy. The gay white boy is a little beat, but things are still topsy-turvy.