Puttin' On The Ritz (written by Irving Berlin) 1930 version
(A1) Have you seen the well-to-do Up on Lenox Avenue? On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air? (A2) High hats and colored collars, White spats and fifteen dollars, Spending every dime For a wonderful time. (B1) If you’re blue and you don’t know Where to go to, why don’t you go Where Harlem flits Puttin’ on the Ritz? (B2) Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levee, all misfits… Puttin’ on the Ritz (C) That’s where each and every Lulu-belle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin’ elbows. (B3) Come with me, and we’ll attend their jubilee, and see them spend their last two bits… Puttin’ on the Ritz.
(B1) If you’re blue and you don’t know Where to go to, why don’t you go Where Harlem flits Puttin’ on the Ritz? (B2) Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high browns from down the levee, all misfits… Puttin’ on the Ritz (C) That’s where each and every Lulu-belle goes Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus Rubbin’ elbows. (B3) Come with me, and we’ll attend their jubilee, and see them spend their last two bits… Puttin’ on the Ritz.
(B3) Come with me, and we’ll attend their jubilee, and see them spend their last two bits… Puttin’ on the Ritz.