"Organ Grinder's Swing" (also written "Organ Grinder Swing") is a jazz swing tune from 1936, with music by Will Hudson and lyrics by Mitchell Parish and Irving Mills, who also published it. Hudson reportedly based the tune on the nursery rhyme "I Love Coffee, I Love Tea". The original recording was made by the Hudson-DeLange Orchestra on March 20, 1936. The tune became closely associated with the Jimmie Lunceford orchestra, whose September 1936 recording is a cover. Other early versions were recorded by Ella Fitzgerald and Her Savoy Eight, Benny Goodman, Django Reinhardt, the Mills Brothers and Jolly Coburn. Later versions include Ella Fitzgerald with Count Basie (1982), organist Jimmy Smith's 1965 album Organ Grinder Swing, and a recording by Milt Jackson. The song has English lyrics.
