"Elegance" lyrics

Yes, New York, it's really us
Barnaby and Cornelius

All the guests of Mr. Hackl are
Feeling great and look spectacular

What a knack there is to that
Acting like a born aristocrat
We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance
You can never, ever carry it off

All who are well-bred agree
Minnie Fay has pedigree

Exercise your wildest whims tonight
We are out with diamond Jims tonight

Could they be misleading us?

Silver spoons were used for feeding us

We got elegance, if you ain't got elegance
You can never, ever carry it off

Snobs that slobs throw roses at
We look down our noses at

Pity all the other girls around
When I swing my perfect pearls around

Snubbing folks is chic to us

Sometimes we don't even speak to us

If you ain't got elegance
You can never, ever carry it off

If you please

Middle class, don't speak of this
Savoire-faire, we reek of this
Some were born with rags and patches but
We use dollar bills for matches and

Vanderbilt kowtows to us

J. P. Morgan scrapes and bows to us

We've got elegance, we were born with elegance

I behave like Walter Rauleigh when the streets are full of mud

And the bluest huckleberry isn't bluer than my blood

Have you noticed when I hold my cup the saucer never moves?

And the way I keep my pinkie up indubitably proves that

We got elegance, we got built-in elegance

And with elegance

Elegance

Elegance

Elegance

Elegance
We'll carry it off