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When I Take My Sugar To Tea

Words nd Music by Simmy Fain, Irving Kaha1, Pierre Norman - 1931

Verse:
F	Gm7            C+	F                C7	-                F
-               F#dim	Gm7            C7	-	F
F	Gm7            C+	F                C7	-                F
C	G7	C7	-
Chorus:
F              F#dim	C7	F              F#dim	C7
D7	Gm7          Bbm	F                C7	F               C7
F              F#dim	C7	F              F#dim	C7
D7	Gm7          Bbm	F                C7	F               F7
Bb	-	Eb7	-
F	G7	Db7	C7
F              F#dim	C7	F              F#dim	C7
D7	Gm7          Bbm	F                C7	F       (C7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

I'm just a little "Jackie Horner" since I met my sugar cane.

That gang of mine has been revealin' that they're feelin sore.
I left the lamplight on the corner for the moon in lover's lane.
I'm doing things I never did before.

 

Chorus:

When 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.

I'm a rowdy dowdy thats me. She's highhat baby, thats she.

So I never take her where the gang goes, when I take my sugar to tea.
Ev'ry Sunday after noon, we forget about our cares,
Rubbing elbows at the Ritz, with those millionaires.

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.

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Listen to the Reynolds Brothers perform "When I Take My Sugar To Tea" (mp3)

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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