Puttin' On The Ritz chords by Ralph Shaw

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Verse 1
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Have you seen the well -to -do
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Up on Lennox Av enue?
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On that famous thoroughfare
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With their noses in the air?
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High hats and arrow collars
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White spats and fifteen dollars
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Spending every dime
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For a wonderful time
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If you're blue and you don't
know where to go to
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Why don't you go where Harlem sits
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But not the Ritz
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Spangled gowns upon a
bevy of highbrows
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From down the levee, all misfits
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But not the Ritz
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That's where each and
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every lunar bell goes
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Every Thursday evening
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with us swell boys rubbing elbows
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Come with me and we'll
look at their jubilee
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And see them spend their last two bits
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putting on the Ritz
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Ruben treats  his sweetie
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to high -brow drinks of oyster stew
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Though he knows quite
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well his dash means
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six days on warm the pash
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High spots  today they'll borrow
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Dry spots will come tomorrow
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Oh, but now nobody cares
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Tonight they're all millionaires
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If you're blue and you
don't know where to go to
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Why don't you go where fashion sits
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Puttin' on the Ritz
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Different types who wear a day coat
Pants with stripes and cutaway coat
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Perfect fits
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Puttin' on the ritz, puttin'
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Strollin' down the
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avenue  so happy
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All dressed up just like an English chappie
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I say, very snappy
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Come let's mix, we're a caballers
Walk with sticks and umbrellas
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in their mitts
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Puttin' on the ritz,
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puttin' on the ritz
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Puttin' on the ritz,
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puttin' on
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For the Ritz!
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