When I Take My Sugar To Tea

artist:Reynold Brothers

, writer:Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman

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 {title:When I Take My Sugar To Tea }
{artist: Reynold Brothers}
{key: F}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1fnfAwr9S0&t=44 Capo 5
{c: Thanks to Christopher Bailey }
[C7] When I [F] take my [Cdim] sugar to [C7] tea, 
All the [F] boys are [Cdim] jealous of [C7] me,  
'Cause I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes,
[Bbm] When I [F] take my [C7] sugar to [F] tea. [C7] 

I'm a [F] rowdy [Cdim] dowdy, that's [C7] me.  
She's a [F] high hat [Cdim] mama, that's [C7] she, 
So I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes, 
[Bbm] When I [F] take my sugar [C7] to [F] tea  
 
[Bb] Every Sunday afternoon, [Eb7] we forget about our cares,  
[F] Rubbing elbows [G7] at the Ritz, [Db7] with those [C7] million-[F]aires. 
 
[C7] When I [F] take my [Cdim] sugar to [C7] tea,  
All the [F] boys are [Cdim] jealous of [C7] me,  
'Cause I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes,  
[F] When I take my [C7] sugar to [F] tea. 

{sos}
[C7] When I [F] take my [Cdim] sugar to [C7] tea,  
All the [F] boys are [Cdim] jealous of [C7] me,  
'Cause I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes,  
[F] When I take my [C7] sugar to [F] tea.
{eos}
[C7] When I [F] take my [Cdim] sugar to [C7] tea,  
All the [F] boys are [Cdim] jealous of [C7] me,  
'Cause I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes,  
[F] When I take my [C7] sugar to [F] tea. 

I'm a [F] rowdy [Cdim] dowdy, that's [C7] me.  
She's a [F] high hat [Cdim] mama, that's [C7] she, 
So I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes, 
[Bbm] When I [F] take my sugar [C7] to [F] tea  
 
[Bb] Every Sunday afternoon, [Eb7] we forget about our cares,  
[F] Rubbing elbows [G7] at the Ritz, [Db7] with those [C7] million-[F]aires. 
 
[C7] When I [F] take my [Cdim] sugar to [C7] tea,  
All the [F] boys are [Cdim] jealous of [C7] me,  
'Cause I [D7] never take her where the [Gm7] gang [Bbm] goes,  
[F] When I take my [C7] sugar to [F] tea.

Song Info

Title: When I Take My Sugar To Tea

Artist: Reynold Brothers

Writer: Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman

Song Types: Jazz, Pop

Key: F

Info: with Ralf Reynolds, leader, washboard; John Reynolds, guitar; Katie Cavera, bass; Marc Caparone, cornet; guest Jeff Barnhart, piano; Dan Barrett, trombone; Bryan Shaw, cornet; and Rebecca Kilgore, vocal.
(March 5, 2011 at Dixieland Monterey.)

"When I Take My Sugar to Tea" was introduced in Monkey Business by Chico Marx (sans vocal) as part of a piano medley with "Pizzicato Polka," a variation on a piece from the classical repertoire.

Copyrights for "I Take My Sugar to Tea" are in the names of the three songwriters (see above.), their family members and the Famous Music Corp., publisher of the sheet music, and are all dated January 20, 1931. The movie Monkey Business was released by Paramount Pictures, about 8 months later on September 19, 1931. Whether Fain, Kahal and Norman, who all worked for Paramount Studios in Hollywood at the time, wrote the song specifically for Monkey Business or not is not clear

Thomas Hischak notes in his Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia that "When I Take My Sugar to Tea" was a "dapper number" the theme of which is the singer's desire to avoid having his rather low-class buddies meet his high-class girl. In order to avoid the embarrassment of such an encounter instead of taking her to the local gin mill, he takes her out to tea

Fortunately for "When I Take My Sugar to Tea," the song's value was more keenly realized as a result of a number of successful early recordings by big bands such as those of Glen Gray, Burt Lown and Joe Mooney, and most prominently by The Boswell Sisters who recorded it accompanied by The Dorsey Bothers and their orchestra in March,1931, even before the release of Monkey Business on September 19, of that year. The Boswell's record rose to number six on the charts also before the movie came out.

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When I Take My Sugar To Tea

artist:Reynold Brothers

, writer:Sammy Fain, Irving Kahal, and Pierre Norman

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