Classic Poem

(O RIGINAL Version )

VERSE

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

REFRAIN

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 a bevy
Of high browns from down the levee,
All misfits,
Puttin' on the Ritz.
That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Belle goes
Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning 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.