Puttin' on the Ritz Songtext
von Harry Richman

Have you seen the well-to-do
Up on Lennox Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air?

High hats and colored 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 the bevee of high browns
From down the levee
All misfits
Puttin' on the ritz

That′s where each and every Lulu-Belle goes
Every Thursday evening 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

If you′re blue and
You don't know where to go to
Why don′t you go where Harlem sits?
Mmmm
Puttin' on the ritz

Spangled gowns upon the bevee of high browns
From down the levee
All misfits
And how they′re
Puttin' on the ritz

That's where each and every Lulu-Belle goes
Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus
Rubbing elbows

Come with me and we′ll attend
Their jubilee, and see them spend
Their last two bits
Just puttin′ on the ritz