"We're a Couple of Swells" is an American comedy duet song performed by Judy Garland and Fred Astaire in the film Easter Parade (1948).

Berlin wrote the song in about an hour drawing on his experience as a Tin Pan Alley popular songwriter.

[1][2][3][4] The film is set in 1912 in the New York Broadway Vaudeville business in which hobo acts depicting down and outs were popular with audiences.

Astaire and Garland appear as tramps in worn out clothing cast off by the very rich.

The song verses close with the refrain:So we'll walk up the avenueYes we'll walk up the avenueAnd to walk up the avenue's what we like Verses in the song also satirize aspects of the lifestyle of the rich; 'sports' who play tennis all summer, Wall Street bankers who are too drunk to find the key to the safe, and wealthy playboys who are adored and chased by photographic models.