Have you seen the well-to-do
Up and down Park Avenue
On that famous thoroughfare

With their noses in the air

High hats and arrowed collars

Wide 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
Putting on the Ritz


Different types, who wear a day coat
Pants with stripes and cut away coat
Perfect fits

Putting on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million dollar trooper

Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper
Super-duper


Come, let's mix where Rockefellers
Walk with sticks or umbrellas
In their mitts

Putting on the Ritz

Spangled gowns upon a beauty

Of hand-me-downs on clown and cutie
All misfits
Putting on the Ritz


Strolling up the avenue so happy
All dressed up just like an English chappie

Very snappy

You'll declare it's simply topping

To be there and hear them swapping
Smart tidbits
Putting on the Ritz


Putting on the Ritz
Putting on the Ritz