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A-Tisket A-Tasket Lyrics

Artist: Ella Fitzgerald

A-tisket a-tasket
A green-and-yellow basket
I bought a basket for my mommie
On the way I dropped it

I dropped it, I dropped it
Yes, on the way I dropped it
A little girlie picked it up
And took it to the market

She was truckin' on down the avenue
Without a single thing to do
She was peck, peck, peckin' all around
When she spied it on the ground

A-tisket a-tasket
She took my yellow basket
And if she doesn't bring it back
I think that I shall die

(Was it red?) No, no, no, no
(Was it brown?) No, no, no, no
(Was it blue?) No, no, no, no
Just a little yellow basket

Comments/Interpretations

by joi on 5/30/2008 5:20pm
i love this song and i made a remix to it it sounds great

by lala on 10/6/2008 7:10pm
i love this

by faggeterrrs on 10/27/2008 9:34pm
wow this is retarded..im mad that i just wasted like 5 minutes of my time on this.

by Katarina on 11/15/2008 3:48pm
that is not how i learnd this song. you chaned it

by Mia on 11/21/2008 4:18pm
The only reason i looked this song up is because I found it in a music book at school.

by jytjhgjfthgf on 12/9/2008 3:39pm
This sucks

by kadijah on 3/14/2009 8:38pm
this is a good and a glorious i wish ican sing that song on stage

by Klaudia on 6/5/2009 7:38am
GREAT^^

by samantha on 6/26/2009 8:10am
hey this song is so cool... man

by simone on 12/6/2009 10:10am
i learned the song like this:a tisket a tasket a green-and-yellow basket i wrote a letter to my love and on the way i dropped it.i dropped it i dropped it yes on my way i dropped it a little boy,picked it up,and put it in his pocket.

by doodoo on 12/27/2009 7:52am
i like it! i mean not like it... i love it!!!!!!!!!!!!

by ... on 1/6/2010 11:00pm
the lyrics are way wrong!!!!

by Kandace on 2/16/2010 6:28pm
i thik this was so funny i could almost be touched!!!!!!!!! lol...yea rite

by Kandace on 2/16/2010 6:32pm
a tisket a tasket a green and yellow basket i wrote a letter to my friend and on the way i dropped it, i dropped it, and on the way i dropped it a little boy he came along and put it in his pocket!!!! haha i hope i get it back!!! lol yea rite that's how the lyrocs go!!!!!!!

by GEVONDA on 2/28/2010 8:11am
I LYKE DA NEW 1 BETTER :*) (0)(0)

by steph on 4/14/2010 11:26am
this is the version by ella fitzgerald and van alexander. the song sang in the movie is by manhattan transfer, which is what is referred to as being the original version (:

by Ed on 4/19/2010 8:01pm
I was walking down the street in Culver City ,Ca . just out of highschool , came there to marry my Highschool Sweetheart who had come from Oklahoma to work as "Rosie the Riviter" my cousins and her were singing the song as we walked down the street.

by cupcake on 5/24/2010 2:41pm
i hate it

by maddy from chicago on 7/12/2010 8:09pm
it goes a tisket a tasket a green and yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my friend and on the way i dropped it. I dropped it. I dropped and on the way I dropped it. A little boy came an picked it up and put it in his pocket

by April on 12/12/2010 5:51pm
I thought that part where the girl goes "And if she doesn't bring it back, I think that I shall die." was hystarical. What a melodramatic little girl xD Can't she just write another note? Or find another basket? Lolz.

by some on 2/11/2011 8:09pm
this song is cool

by mike on 3/1/2011 5:04am
I can't believe no one mentioned the Abbot and Costello movie Ride Em Cowboy where a young Ella sings this on a bus heading to a dude ranch. The boys (Bud And Lou) are hitching a ride holding on to the back of the bus when the fun begins.

by mickeymouse on 5/2/2011 1:32pm
this song is soo cute!!!!!!!! I love it!!!!!!! :D

by Big Joe on 10/15/2011 7:51pm
In elementary school the girls would jump rope while reciting the verses.. This was the late 30's in to the early 40's. It has interested me ever since.

by Travis Korns on 12/4/2011 9:12pm
these ARE the lyrics as sung by Ella Fitzgerald...

by hannah on 2/23/2012 8:25pm
sweet

by omg... on 3/14/2012 3:49pm
Some of u people on here saying u know the real lyrics to this song r dumb... I'm really sure that the basket was dropped and that someone came n put it in their pocket... cuz that sounds so logical right! (That said with sooo much sarcasm) STFU

by ???? on 3/25/2012 4:31pm
Umm....

by Aesha on 6/3/2012 11:48am
My sister and her friend, Nya, sings this song all the time

by Yah yah on 9/10/2012 6:43pm
A brown and yellow basket!!!! Was it red? No no no no! Was it green? No no no no! Was it serese? NO NONO NO NO NO! A little yellow basket! And you left part of the song out!!!!!

by Oochi on 9/11/2012 8:58pm
A tisket a tasket a brown and yellow basket. I sent a letter to my momy, on the way I dropped it. I dropped it I dropped it! My little yellow basket! A little girly picket it up and put it in her pocket! She took it, she took it! My little yellow basket. And if she doesn't bring it back, I guess that I will die! She was strolling on Down the avenue with not a single thing to do, she went a peck peck peck all all around! And then she saw it on the ground

by susie on 11/16/2012 8:19pm
My friends sing the song in the pool at the YMCA. we didn't know all the words but we do get such joy at hearing Jerry say nooooo, it was a yellow basket. thanks for all the words...

by delina on 2/10/2013 3:02am
who is singing a tisket a tasket

by coolness on 2/10/2013 10:41pm
i am doing a report on ella fitzgerald

by kylee on 3/17/2015 4:01pm
i love it

by maddy=:) on 5/11/2015 9:49am
i looked it up cuz it was on a test I took..i read about her