WHEN I TAKE MY SUGAR TO TEA
Written by Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman, ©1931.
As recorded by the Boswell Sisters with the Dorsey Brothers' Orchestra

VERSE: I'm just a little Jackie Horner
Since I met my sugar cane.
That gang of mine has been revealin' that they're feeling sore.
I left the lamplight on that old corner
For the moon on Lovers' Lane.
I'm doing things I never did before.

CHORUS 1: 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.

2. 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.

BRIDGE: Ev'ry Sunday afternoon,
We forget about our cares,
Rubbing elbows at the Ritz
With those millionaires.

3. When I take my sugar to tea,
I'm as ritzy as I can be,
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes
When I take my sugar to tea.


Another recording that includes the verse was made by The Sunshine Boys.

Other early recordings with the chorus but no verse were made by Bunny Berigan, Fred Rich & His Orchestra, Jack Hylton & His Orchestra, King Oliver & the Chocolate Dandies, Nat King Cole, and The Casa Loma Orchestra