[Intro]
Have you seen the well-to-do
Up on Lenox Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare
With their noses in the air?
High hats, colored collars
White spats and fifteen dollars
Spending every dime
For a wonderful time

[Verse 1]
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?

[Verse 2]
Spangled gowns upon the bevy
Of high browns from down the levee
All misfits
Puttin' on the Ritz

[Chorus]
That's where each and every Lulu-Belle goes
Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus
Rubbing elbows
[Verse 3]
Come with me, and we'll attend
Their jubilee, and see them spend
Their last two bits
Puttin' on the Ritz

[Trumpet Solo]

[Verse 1]
If you're blue and you don't know
Where to go to, why don't you go
Where Harlem sits
Mm, puttin' on the Ritz?

[Verse 2]
Spangled gowns upon the bevy
Of high browns from down the levee
All misfits
And how they're puttin' on the Ritz

[Chorus]
That's where each and every Lulu-Belle goes
Every Thursday evening with her swell beaus
Rubbing elbows

[Verse 3]
Come with me, and we'll attend
Their jubilee, and see them spend
Their last two bits
Just puttin' on the Ritz