Puttin' On The Ritz
Irving Berlin/Harry Richman
From the film "Puttin' On The Ritz" (1930)
Standard Tuning
[Verse 1]
F Abdim7 Gm7 C7
Have you seen the well to do?
F Abdim7 Gm7 C7
Up and down Park Avenue?
Ab Bdim7 Bbm7 Eb7
On that famous thoroughfare?
Ab Bdim7 Bbm7 Eb7
With their noses in the air?
C C#dim7 Dm7 G7
High hats and arrowed collars
C C#dim7 Dm7 G7
White spats and fifteen dollars
Am D7
Spending every dime
G7 C7 Caug
For a wonderful time!
[Chorus]
Fm
If you're blue and you don't know where to
C7
go to, why don't you go where fashion sits?
Fm Fm/Eb Db7 C7
Puttin on the Ritz!
Fm
Different types who wear a daycoat Pants
C7
with stripes and cut-away coat, perfect fits,
Fm Fm/Eb Db7 C7
Puttin on the Ritz!
Bbm
Dressed up like a million dollar trooper
Ab Ab C7
Trying hard to look like Gary Cooper, Super-duper!
Fm
Come, let's mix with rockefellers walk
C7
with sticks or 'um-be-rellas" in their mitts,
Fm7 Fm6
Puttin on the Ritz!
