Album: Cheek To Cheek: Irving Berlin Songbook

Puttin' On The Ritz

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

Now, if you're blue
And you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where Harlem splits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Spangled gowns upon the bevy
of highbrows along the levy
All is spitz
Puttin' on the Ritz

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

Come with me and we'll attend
Their jubilee and watch them spend
Their last two bits
Puttin' on the Ritz