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{{Infobox song | name = I'm a Little Teapot | cover = Teapot_song_sheet_music_cover.jpg | alt = The Teapot Song sheet music cover | caption = Sheet music cover | type = | artist = George Harry Sanders and Clarence Kelley | album = | released = 1939 | recorded = | studio = | venue = | genre = [[Children's music]] | length = | label = Kelman Music Corporation | writer = George Harry Sanders and Clarence Kelley | producer = }} "'''I'm a Little Teapot'''" is an American novelty song describing the heating and pouring of a [[teapot]] or a [[Whistling kettle|whistling tea kettle]]. The song was originally written by George Harry Sanders and Clarence Z. Kelley and published in 1939.<ref>{{cite book |last=Sanders |first=Ronald |title= Reflections on a Teapot, the Personal History of a Time |publisher= Harper & Row, New York |date=January 1972 |isbn=978-0-06-013754-0}}</ref> By 1941, a ''[[Newsweek]]'' article referred to the song as "the next inane novelty song to sweep the country".<ref>''[[Newsweek]]'' (1941), Vol. 18, p. 10.</ref>
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