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 Spending 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 sits Puttin' on the ritz Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns From down the levee all misfits Puttin' on the ritz That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Bell goes Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning with her swell beaus Rubbing elbows Come with me and we'll attend their 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 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 sits Puttin' on the ritz Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns From down the levee all misfits Puttin' on the ritz That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Bell goes Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning with her swell beaus Rubbing elbows Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee And see them spend their last two bits Puttin' on the ritz