| Have you seen the well-to-do
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| Up and down Park Avenue
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| On that famous thoroughfare
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| With their noses in the air
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| High hats and narrow collars
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| White spats and fifteen dollars
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| Spending every dime
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| For a wonderful time
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| Now, if you’re blue
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| And you don’t know where to go to
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| Why don’t you go where Harlem flits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz
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| Spangled Gowns upon the bevy of
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| High browns from down the levy
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| Always spits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz
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| That’s where each and every lulu-belle goes
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| Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus
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| Rubbin' elbows
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| Come with me and we’ll attend their jubilee
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| And see them spend
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| Their last two bits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz
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| ------ short instrumental break ------
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| (Boys, look at that man puttin' on that Ritz)
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| Now, if you’re blue
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| And you don’t know where to go to
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| Why don’t you go where Harlem flits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz
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| Spangled Gowns upon the bevy of
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| High browns from down the levy
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| All misfits
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| Puttin' on that certain Ritz
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| Come with me and we’ll attend their jubilee
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| And see them spend
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| Their last two bits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz
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| Come with me and we’ll attend their jubilee
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| And see them spend
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| Their last two bits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz |