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Nursery rhyme history
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What is the history behind the nursery rhyme, "A tisket, a tasket?"
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.The lyric (North American version, anyway) goes:
"A tisket, a tasket, a green-and-yellow basket. I wrote a letter to my love and on the way I lost it." I wondered if it had to do with a royal reprieve for a man condemned to hang that went astray, or something along those lines. What lyric do you know? Sometimes, they undergo such dramatric changes over time that the original meaning is quite lost.
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