Elegance

Yes, New York, it's really us

Barnaby and Cornelius

All the guests of Mr. Hackl are

Feelin' great and look spectacular

What a knack there is to that

Acting like a born aristocrat

We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance

You can never, ever carry it off

All who are well-bred agree

Minnie Fay has pedigree

Exercise your wildest whims tonight

We are out with diamond Jims tonight

Could they be misleading us?

Silver spoons were used for feeding us

We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance

You can never, ever carry it off

Middle class, don't speak of it

Savoir Faire, we reek of it

Some were born with rags and patches but

We use dollar bills for matches and

Vanderbilt kowtows to us

J.P. Morgan scrapes and bows to us

We got elegance, we were born with elegance

I behave like Walter Raleigh

When the streets are full of mud

And the bluest huckleberry

Isn't bluer than my blood

Have you noticed when I hold my cup

The saucer never moves

And the way I keep my pinky up

Indubitably proves

That we got elegance, we got built-in elegance

And with elegance (Elegance, elegance, elegance, elegance)

We'll carry it off!