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A-Tisket, A-Tasket

Words and Music by Ella Fitzgerald -1938

Number 1 on the Hit Parade in 1938,  played for 11 weeks.

Verse:
Bb6	-	F	-
Bb6	-                          C7	F	C7           C+7
Chorus:
F                          Bb	F                         C7	F                            Bb	F                        F#dim
Gm7            C7	Gm7           C7	Gm7             C7	F              C+7
F                          Bb	F                         C7	F                            Bb	F                        F#dim
Gm7            C7	Gm7           C7	Gm7             C7	F               F7
Bb	Bbm6	F                Fmaj7	F7                         F+
Bb               Bb+	Bbm6	F                 Dm7	G7             C7      C+7
F                          Bb	F                         C7	F                            Bb	F                        F#dim
Gm7            C7	Gm7           C7	-	F       (C+7 to chorus)

8-beat intro.  Play 4-beats for each cell, reading from left to right.

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Verse:

Please listen, It's awful bad.  Please listen, I'm awful sad.

Please help me,  I'm singin' the Blues.

 

Chorus:

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.

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Arranged by Jim Bottorff

 

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