Puttin' on the Ritz

Have you seen the well-to-do

Up on Lenox Avenue

On that famous thoroughfare

With their noses in the air

High hats and arrowed collars

White spats and fifteen dollars

Spendin' every dime

On a wonderful time

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to

Why don't you go where Harlem flits

Puttin' on the Ritz

Spangled gowns up on the bevy of high browns

From down the levee, all misfits

Oh, puttin' on the Ritz

And that's where each and every lulu bell goes

Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus

Rubbin' elbows

Come with me and we'll attend the jubilee

And see them spend their last two bits

Puttin' on the Ritz

Have you seen the well-to-do

Up on Lenox Avenue

On that famous thoroughfare

With their noses in the air

High hats and arrowed collars

White spats and fifteen dollars

Spendin' every dime

For a wonderful time

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to

Why don't you go where fashion sits

Puttin' on the Ritz

Spangled gowns up on the bevy of high browns

From down the levee, all misfits

Puttin' on the Ritz

That's where each and every lulu bell goes

Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus

Rubbin' elbows

Come with me and we'll attend the jubilee

See them spend their last two bits

Puttin' on the Ritz