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1931 HITS ARCHIVE: When I Take My Sugar To Tea - Boswell Sisters (with the Dorsey Brothers)
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PERFORMING ARTISTS
The Boswell Sisters
The Boswell Sisters
Performer
COMPOSITION & LYRICS
Sammy Fain
Sammy Fain
Songwriter
Irving Kahal
Irving Kahal
Songwriter
Pierre Connor
Pierre Connor
Songwriter

Lyrics

[Verse 1]
I'm just a little Jackie Horner
Since I met my sugar cane
That gang of mine has been revealing
That they're feeling sore
I left a lamp light on that old corner
For the moon in lover's lane
I'm doing things I never did before
[Verse 2]
When I take my sugar to tea
All the boys are jealous of me
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea
[Verse 3]
I'm a rowdy dowdy, that's me
She's a high-hat baby, that's she
So I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea
[Verse 4]
Every Sunday afternoon
We forget about our cares
Rubbing elbows at the Ritz
With those millionaires
[Verse 5]
When I take my sugar to tea
I'm as Ritzy there as I can be
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea
[Verse 6]
When I take my sugar to tea
All the boys are jealous of me
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea
[Verse 7]
I'm a rowdy dowdy, that's me
She's a high-hat baby, that's she
So I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea
[Verse 8]
Rubbing elbows at the Ritz
With those millionaires
[Verse 9]
When I take my sugar to tea
I'm as Ritzy as can be
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea
Written by: Irving Kahal, Pierre Norman, Sammy Fain

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