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When My Sugar Walks Down the Street
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The Ink Spots
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Writers: Irving Mills, Jimmy McHugh, and Gene Austin
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This version did not chart but, in 1925, Aileen Stanley and writer Austin's duet hit
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# 3 while the competing Warner's Seven Aces version managed # 14.
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In 1944 Ella Fitzgerald took it to # 27
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Reportedly recorded by Phil Harris and His Orchestra, too: chart info unknown.
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When my sugar walks down the street
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The little birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"
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And in the evenin' when the sun go down
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It's never dark when she's around
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She's so affectionate I'll say this
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And when she kisses me I'll stay kissed
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When my sugar walks down the street
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The little birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"
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And when my sugar walks down the street
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All the birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"
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And in the evenin' when the sun go down
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It's never dark when she's around
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She's so affectionate and I'll say this
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And when she kisses me I'll stay kissed
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And when my sugar walks down the street
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The little birdies go "Tweet, tweet, tweet"
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When My Sugar Walks Down The Street
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The Ink Spots |