WHEN I TAKE MY SUGAR TO TEA
(Sammy Fain / Irving Kahal / Pierre Norman)


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 lamp light on the corner,
for the moon in lover's lane.
I'm doing things I never did before. 

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. 

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.

Ev'ry Sunday afternoon,
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 can be, 
'cause I never take her where the gang goes, 
When I take my sugar to tea. 



(Contributed by Bette Carl - March 2003)