[Intro]
Fm Ab Bb C Fm Am Dm
[Verse 1]
Dm C
Have you seen the well-to-do
C
Up on Lenox Avenue
C Gm
On that famous thoroughfare
Gm Eb
With their noses in the air
C Dm
High hats and colored collars
C
White spats and fifteen dollars
Am
Spending every dime
Gm
On a wonderful time
[Chorus 1]
Fm
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Fm C
Why don't you go where Harlem sits
Eb C#
Puttin' on the ritz
Fm
Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns
Fm C
From down the levee, all misfits
Fm C#
Puttin' on the ritz
Dm Bb Eb
That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Bell goes
Ab
Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning with her spouse-os
C#
Rubbing elbows
Fm
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee
Fm C
And see them spend their last two bits
C# Gm
Puttin' on the ritz
[Solo]
Fm C Fm C# Fm C Fm C# Ab C# Fm C C# Gm
[Chorus 2]
C# Fm
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Fm Dm
Why don't you go where Harlem sits
C Bb C
Hmmmmmm puttin' on the ritz
Fm
Spangled gowns upon a bevy of high browns
C
From down the levee, all misfits
C C#
And how they are puttin' on the ritz
Bb Eb
That's where each and ev'ry Lulu Bell goes
Ab Eb Ab
Ev'ry Thursday ev'ning with her spouse-os
C#
Rubbing elbows
Fm
Come with me and we'll attend their jubilee
C
And see them spend their last two bits
C Bb Dm
Just puttin' on the ritz