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 every lulubelle goes
Ev'ry Thursday evening with her swell [bad word] elbows [bad word] with me and we'll attend their jubilee
And see them spend their last two bits
Puttin' on the ritz