Puttin' On The Ritz (From "Puttin' On The Ritz")

Puttin' On The Ritz (Puttin' On The Ritz 1930) - 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 coloured 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

Putting on the ritz

Spangled gowns upon the bevee of high browns

From down the levee all misfits

Putting 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

Putting on the ritz

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to

Why don't you go where harlem sits

Um putting on the ritz

Spangled gowns upon the bevee of high browns

From down the levee all misfits

And how they're putting 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

God putting on the ritz