I LOST MY SUGAR IN SALT LAKE CITY
(Leon René / Johnny Lange)


Johnny Mercer & Freddie Slack - 1942
Mae Johnson (feat. in the film "Stormy Weather") - 1943
Stan Kenton & His Orch. (vocal: Anita O'Day) - 1943
Judy Garland & Johnny Mercer (Radio Transcription) - 1943
Perry Como - 1943
Julie London - 1956
Peggy Lee & George Shearing - 1959


Also recorded by:
Billy Eckstine; Louis Armstrong; Sonny Dunham; Louis Jordan.




I lost my sugar in Salt Lake City 
Oh, why did I go there 
I should have stayed down in New Orleans 
And never gone nowhere 


A girl with sweet talk from Kansas City 
Her words were sweet like wine 
She bought him diamonds and limousines 
She stole that man o' mine 


When night comes a-creepin' 
For me there's no sleeping 
What she sews, she'll be reapin' 
'Cause she done me wrong
 
I cried my heart out in Salt Lake City 
The day I heard the news 
He left me deep in my solitude 
With a Salt Lake City blues


With a Salt Lake City blues
 




(Transcribed from the Peggy Lee/George Shearing
recording by Mel Priddle - January 2007)