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"A Tisket A Tasket" is a nursery rhyme first recorded in America in the late nineteenth century.〔W. E. Studwell and M. Baldin, ''The big band reader: songs favored by swing era orchestras and other popular ensembles'' (Haworth Press, 2000), p. 35.〕 It was used as the basis for a very successful and highly regarded 1938 recording by Ella Fitzgerald. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 13188. ==Traditional lyrics== The rhyme was first noted in the United States in 1879〔 as a children's rhyming game. It was sung while children danced in a circle. One of the number ran on the outside of the circle and dropped a handkerchief. The nearest child would then pick it up and chase the dropper. If caught the dropper either was kissed, joined the circle, or had to tell the name of their sweetheart.〔 An early noted version had the lyrics: :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, :And on the way I dropped it. :A little boy he picked it up and put it in his pocket.〔 In some variants, the second line is "I lost my yellow basket". In other variants, the last line is "A little girl picked it up and put it in her pocket". In nineteenth-century England, the rhyme used in the same game had somewhat different but evidently related words: :I lost my supper, last night, :And the night before, :And if I do this night, :I never will no more. :I sent a letter to my love, :I carried water in my glove, :And by the way I dropped it, I did so, I did so: :I had a little dog that said bow-wow! :I had a little cat that said meow-meow! :Shan't bite you, shan't bite you, :Shall bite you. :I dropt it, I dropt it, :And by the way I lost it.〔Northall, G. F. ''English Folk-Rhymes: A collection of traditional verses relating to places and persons, customs, superstitions, etc.'' 1892. pg. 364〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「A-Tisket, A-Tasket」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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