The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #434 Message #3831307
Posted By: Joe Offer
09-Jan-17 - 02:15 AM
Thread Name: Origins: I'm a Little Teapot
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: I'm a Little Teapot
OK, I'm ready to believe that there is a 1939 copyright song with this title, but I can't believe it's the original song. I've known the one-verse version with hand motions all my life - and I'm very, very old.
Please tell me that the original of this song is more than ten years older that I am.
Here are the lyrics I have known all my life:
I'm a little teapot, short and stout.
Here is my handle. Here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up, I just shout (or hear me shout).
Tip me over and pour me out.
Can anyone document this song as older than 1939?
-Joe-