I'm A Little Teapot
I'm a little teapot short and stout,
Here is my handle, here is my spout,
When I get all steamed up hear me shout,
Tip me over and pour me out.
I'm a clever teapot, yes it's true;
Let me show you what I can do:
I can change my handle to my spout
Just tip me over and pour me out.
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Thanks to VMSchlecht
for submitting the information below
THE TEAPOT SONG
Excerpt from "Reflections on a Teapot: The Personal History of
Time" By Ronald Sanders
(New York: Harper & Row: 1972), pp 1-5, 29-34.
I'm a little teapot, short and stout,
Here is my handle, here is my spout.
When I get all steamed up, then I shout:
"Just tip me over, pour me out!"
Let me inform you of the true origins
of this song. Among those of you who happen to be acquainted with it,
there apparently are many who have thought it to be an anonymous nursery
rhyme, composed at some obscure moment in England's Victorian past,
perhaps alongside the hearth of a forgotten kitchen; but this isn't so.
The truth of the matter is it was written one day in the spring of 1939
by my father, George Harry Sanders, with the help of his partner,
Clarence Kelley, in the office of a modest music publishing enterprise
of theirs located at the corner of Broadway and Fifty-second Street in
New York. This was the heart of New York's popular-music publishing
district, then still known as "Tin Pan Alley."
More information about this song can be
found at: http://www.teaspirit.com/teasip/teapotsong.html
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