First(?) audio recording by: Frank Luther (Francis Luther Crow, 1899-1980.)
Frank Luther, Nursery Rhymes, Decca 384, 1935, 78rpm, Side A, Trk.5.


""But, say; what is it all about?" Ruthie asked the Chief of the Gamekeepers, for she had not quite got it straight in her mind. Then the whole court, turning towards her, sang in chorus:

A Tisket ; a Tasket ;
A green and yellow basket!
I sent a letter to my love,
And on my way I dropped it —
I dropped it ; I dropped it; —

"Oh, I know where it is then!" burst out Ruthie; and springing into the circle, she parted the valiant knights who were hammering away at each other's helmets, grasped the Duke and the Count by their arms and sang loudly:

A little darky picked it up
And put it in his pocket —
His pocket ; his pocket! —

"And see, there he goes — green and yellow basket, letter and all," she added as she spied the "little darky" running for dear life across the Brussels carpet. Dropping the arms of the champions she dashed after the fugitive, followed by the Chief of the Gamekeepers, the Duke of Tisket and the Count of Tasket, the squirrel, the goat, the boyhorses and all the court….”
[Brooks, Elbridge S. , In No Man's Land, Wide Awake, Vol.R, (Boston: D.Lothrop, 1884, p.401)]