When I Take My Sugar to Tea

Words & Music by Irving Kahal, Sammy Fain & Pierry Norman Connor
Recorded by Leon Redbone, 1991


E7      A     Edim       E7
When I take my sugar to tea, 

         A      Edim        E7
All the boys are jealous of me,

         A     A7(V)              Dalt  B7 
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes,

        E7    E7/6   E7  A
When I take my sugar to tea.


E7      A   Edim          E7
I'm a rowdy dowdy, that's me, 

         A       Edim         E7
She's a high hat mama, that's she,

     A     A7(V)              Dalt  B7
So I never take her where the gang goes,

        E7    E7/6   E7  A
When I take my sugar to tea.


Bridge:

A7     D     G/B   D    Dm6       Dm+7      Dm6
Every Sunday afternoon, we forget about our cares,

 A       C#7  F#7           B7         B7/F#   E7
Rubbing elbows at the Ritz, with those millionaires.


E7      A      Edim     E7
When I take my sugar to tea, 

        A      Edim   E7
I'm as ritzy as I can be,

         A     A7(V)              Dalt  B7
'Cause I never take her where the gang goes,

        E7    E7/6   E7  A
When I take my sugar to tea.

*Suggested by recent visitor Bill Wells

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