If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat pants with stripes
And cutaway coat perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk
With sticks or um-ber-ellas in their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz

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 arrow collars
White spats, and lots of 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
Puttin' on the Ritz
Different types who wear a day coat pants with stripes
And cutaway coat perfect fits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
Come let's mix where Rockefellers walk
With sticks or um-ber-ellas in their mitts
Puttin' on the Ritz

Dressed up like a million-dollar trooper
Tryin' hard to look like Gary Cooper (super duper)
If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz
Puttin' on the Ritz

(Down-town, up-town, get your kicks at the Ritz)
(Dine 'n' wine, but not 'til nine)
The time is right for us to tonight)
(We can move, move to the rhythm, we can)

(Move, dance to the rhythm, nice and easy)

(I wantcha to move)

(Put it on, puttin' it on, puttin' it on)
(Puttin' it on the R - I -T - Z)
(How 'bout you and me, says)

(Gotta dance)
(Gotta dance)

(If you're blue and you don't know where to go to)
(Why don't you go where fashion sits)
(Puttin' on the Ritz...)