Analysis Of A Tisket A Tasket

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Ella Fitzgerald’s song “A Tisket a Tasket “is based on a children’s lullaby, and a game that she turned into a Jazz song. As a game the children would sing and dance in a circle, dropping and picking up a hankie. Whoever won the game would get a kiss. The Queen of Jazz created a tune with a catchy rhyme with the simple words for the time period. Which was a time of innocence, a naïve world, filled with sweet notes that lull an infant to sleep. The year was 1938, what seems to be a song for babies to sleep, is really shadowed with death, fear, and a longing to be home. (Azizi Powell, p1) Men have always been taught to be brave and strong through tough times and not to show weakness. This song tells a story of a young soldier who has been shot and is scared of battle and he runs into a field, a sea of yellow men. On line three and four, verse one, it states, “I send a letter to my mommy, on the way I dropped it.” There is desperation for this man to get back to a safe place. ” A brown and yellow basket”, …show more content…

Looking at verse six, and two, it is easy to see when they are singing “So do we, so do we” that fear takes over as all the injured dying men think that their families will never know what happened to them. They will be lost and forgotten forever. (A Tisket A

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