Irving Berlin — 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 narrow collars White spats and fifteen dollars Spending 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 Harlem flits? Puttin' on the Ritz Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns From down the levy, all misfits Putting' on the Ritz That's where each and every lulu-belle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin' elbows Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee And see them spend their last two bits Puttin' on the Ritz Boys, look at that man puttin' on that Ritz You look at him, I can't 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 upon the bevy of high browns From down the levy, all misfits Puttin' on the Ritz That's where each and every lulu-belle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin' elbows Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee And see them spend their last two bits Puttin' on the Ritz Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee And see them spend their last two bits Puttin' on the Ritz