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!
