Please listen, it's awful bad.
Please listen, I'm awful sad.
Please help me, I'm singing the blues.
A tisket, a tasket,
a green and yellow basket.
I bought a basket for my mummy on the way.
I dropped it, I dropped it, I dropped it, yes,
on the way I dropped it.
A little girly picked it up and took it to the market.
She was strutting
on down the avenue without a single thing to do.
She was a peck a peck a 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.
Please listen, it's awful bad.
Please listen, I'm awful sad.
Please help me, I'm singing the blues.
A tisket, a tasket, a green and yellow basket.
I bought a basket for my mummy on the way.
I dropped it,
I dropped it,
I dropped it,
yes,
on the way I dropped it.
A little girly picked it up and took it to the market.
She was strutting on down the avenue without a single thing to do.
She was a peck a peck a peckin' all around.
When she spied it on the ground,
a tisket,
a tasket, she took her 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 blue?
No, no, no, no.
Was it brown?
No, no, no, no, just a little yellow basket.