| Have you seen the well-to-do
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| Up on Lennox 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 colored 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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| If you’re blue and
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| You don’t know where to go to
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| Why don’t you go where Harlem sits?
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| Puttin' on the ritz
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| Spangled gowns upon the bevee of high browns
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| From down the levee
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| All misfits
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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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| Rubbing elbows
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| Come with me and we’ll attend
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| Their jubilee, and see them spend
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| Their last two bits
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| Puttin' on the ritz
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| If you’re blue and
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| You don’t know where to go to
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| Why don’t you go where Harlem sits?
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| Mmmm
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| Puttin' on the ritz
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| Spangled gowns upon the bevee of high browns
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| From down the levee
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| All misfits
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| And how they’re
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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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| Rubbing elbows
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| Come with me and we’ll attend
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| Their jubilee, and see them spend
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| Their last two bits
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| Just puttin' on the ritz |