Please listen it’s awful bad.
Please listen I’m awful sad.
Please help me
I’m singin’ the blues.

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.

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.