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Artist: Rufus Wainwright
Canonical path: /rufus-wainwright/puttin-on-the-ritz
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Puttin' on the ritz
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Puttin' on the ritz
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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 gowns upon a bevy of high brows from down the levy, all misfits
Puttin' on the ritz
That's where each and every lulu-belle goes
Every Sunday evening with her swell goes
Rubbin' elbows
Come let's mix, where Rockefellers walk with sticks
And umbrellas in their mitts
Puttin' on the ritz
If you're blue, and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where fashion sits?
Different gowns upon a bevy of high brows from down the levy, all misfits
Puttin' on the ritz
That's where each and every lulu-belle goes
Every Sunday evening with her swell goes
Rubbin' elbows
Come let's mix, where Rockefellers walk with sticks
And umbrellas in their mitts
Puttin' on the ritz, puttin' on the ritz
Puttin' on the ritz, puttin' on the ritz!
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