| 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 arrowed collars
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| White spats and fifteen dollars
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| Spending every dime
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| On a wonderful time
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| If you're blue and 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 a bevy of high browns
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| From down the levee, all misfits
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| Puttin' on the Ritz
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| That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Bell goes
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| Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning with her swell beaus
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| Rubbing elbows
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| 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 |