A Tisket A Tasket
 Sung and spoken by Ewan MacColl.
Spoken: And the little girls used this song for almost any counting game.
(Sings:)
A tisket, a tasket, a little yellow basket, I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I dropped it.
A tisket, a tasket, a little yellow basket, One of you 'as picked it up and put it in your pocket.
Spoken: It wasn't you, it wasn't you, an it wasn't you.
It was YOU!
This children's game song became a pop — or,
rather, swing band — hit when recorded by Ella
Fitzgerald with the Chick Webb Orchestra in the late
1930s. An astonishing number of U.S. children's
game songs got the swing treatment around this time.
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