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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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