| Have you seen the well-to-do
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| Up on Lenox 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 ev’ry dime
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| For a wonderful time
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| If you’re blue and you
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| 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
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| Of high browns 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 ev’ry Lulu-Belle goes
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| Ev’ry 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 you
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| Don’t know where to go to
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| Why don’t you go where Harlem sits
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| Mmm, puttin' on the Ritz?
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| Spangled gowns upon the bevee
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| Of high browns from down the levee
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| All misfits
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| And how they’re puttin' on the Ritz
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| That’s where each and ev’ry Lulu-Belle goes
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| Ev’ry 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 |