[Original 1930 version]
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[Verse:]
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Have you seen the well-to-do
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Up on Lenox Avenue
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On that famous thoroughfare
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With their noses in the air
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High hats and colored collars
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White spats and fifteen dollars
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Spending every dime
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For a wonderful time
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[Refrain:]
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If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
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Why don't you go where Harlem sits
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Puttin' on the ritz
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Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns
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From down the levee, all misfits
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Puttin' on the ritz
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That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Bell goes
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Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning with her swell beaus
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Rubbing elbows
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Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee
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And see them spend their last two bits
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Puttin' on the ritz
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Puttin' On The Ritz
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| Irving Berlin |
