PARTS: Soprano Alto Tenor Bass All
KEY: bold = first beat of bar ^ = rest Underline = triplet backing vocal = [text]
125 - Putting On The Ritz
Verse 1
(‘ee’) If you’re blue and you don’t know where to
go to, why don’t you go where fash-ion
Sits, put-tin’ on the Ritz?
Verse 2
Diff-‘rent types who wear a day coat, pants
with stripes and cut a-way coat, per-fect
Fits, put-tin’ on the Ritz.
Bridge
Stroll-ing up the av-e-nue so hap-py.
All dressed up just like an Eng-lish chap-pie –
ver-y snap-py!
Verse 3
Come let’s mix where Rock-e-fel-lers walk
with sticks or ‘um-ber-el-las’ in their
Mitts, put-tin’ on the Ritz
[16 x Bar Instrumental]
Verse 1 repeat
(‘ee’) If you’re blue and you don’t know where to
go to, why don’t you go where fash-ion
Sits, put-tin’ on the Ritz?
Verse 2 repeat
Diff-‘rent types who wear a day coat, pants
with stripes and cut a-way coat, per-fect
Fits, put-tin’ on the Ritz.
Bridge 2
Dre-ssed up like a mil-lion dol-lar troup-er.
Try-ing hard to look like Gar-y Coop-er –
su-per du-per!
Verse 3
Come let’s mix where Rock-e-fel-lers walk
with sticks or ‘um-ber-el-las’ in their
Mitts, put-tin’ on the Ritz
Tag
put-tin’ on the Ritz
PUT-TIN’ ON THE RITZ!
A popular song from 1929 by Irving Berlin for the musical film Putting On The Ritz