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?

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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