When My Sugar Walks Down the Street

The Ink Spots

Writers: Irving Mills, Jimmy McHugh, and Gene Austin



This version did not chart but, in 1925, Aileen Stanley and writer Austin's duet hit

# 3 while the competing Warner's Seven Aces version managed # 14.

In 1944 Ella Fitzgerald took it to # 27

Reportedly recorded by Phil Harris and His Orchestra, too: chart info unknown.





When my sugar walks down the street

The little birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"

And in the evenin' when the sun go down

It's never dark when she's around



She's so affectionate I'll say this

And when she kisses me I'll stay kissed

When my sugar walks down the street

The little birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"



And when my sugar walks down the street

All the birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"

And in the evenin' when the sun go down

It's never dark when she's around



She's so affectionate and I'll say this

And when she kisses me I'll stay kissed

And when my sugar walks down the street

The little birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet