From the 1937 musical “On the Avenue”
Words and music by Irving Berlin
The sheet music:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
Put on your slumming clothes and get your car
Let’s go sightseeing where the high-toned people are
Come on, there’s lots of fun in store for you
See how the other half lives on Park Avenue
Chorus
Let’s go slumming, take me slumming
Let’s go slumming on Park Avenue
Let us hide behind a pair of fancy glasses
And make faces when a member of the classes passes
Let’s go smelling where they’re dwelling
Sniffing ev’rything the way they do
Let us go to it, they do it
Why can’t we do it, too?
Let’s go slumming, nose thumbing
At Park Avenue
Sung here by Laurence Rubenstein: