Have you seen the well-to-do Strolling down Fifth Avenue On that famous thoroughfare With their noses in the air High hats and coloured collars White spats and fifteen dollars Spending every dime For a wonderful time (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 Putting on the Ritz Spangled gowns upon a bevy of highbrows, come from the levy, all misfits Putting 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 a jubilee and see them spend their last two bits Putting on the Ritz Reuben treats his sweetie to Highbrow drinks and oyster stew Though he knows quite well his stash Means six days on warmed-up hash High spots today they'll borrow Dry spots will come tomorrow But nobody cares Now they're millionaires If you're blue and you don't know where to go to why don't you go where fashion sits Putting on the Ritz Spangled gowns upon a bevy of highbrows, come from the levy, all misfits Putting 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 a jubilee and see them spend their last two bits Putting on the Ritz (repeat and fade)