Have you seen the well-to-do Up on Lenox Avenue On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air High hats and narrow collars White spats and fifteen dollars Spending every dime On a wonderful time 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 Spangled gowns upon the bevy of high brows From down the levee, all misfits Puttin' on the ritz And that's where each and every Lulu Bell 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 Have you seen the well-to-do Up on Lenox Avenue On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air High hats and narrow 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 fashion sits Puttin' on the ritz Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high brows From down the levee, all misfits Puttin' on the ritz That's where each and every Lulu Bell 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