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Mother Goose (song)

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Studio
  
Island, London

Length
  
3:51

Released
  
19 March 1971 (1971-03-19)

Recorded
  
December 1970 – February 1971

Genre
  
Folk rock progressive rock

Label
  
Reprise (original US) Chrysalis/Capitol (US re-issue)

"Mother Goose" is a song by the British progressive rock band Jethro Tull. It is the fourth track from their album Aqualung which was released in 1971.

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Lyrics and styles

The lyrics are a pastiche of surreal figures based on images that Ian Anderson wrote with the same abstract ideas as "Cross-Eyed Mary". The song is mostly acoustic, like "Cheap Day Return" or "Slipstream". Rolling Stone magazine has put it as "Elizabethan madrigal" musical style.

Recorded appearances

  • Aqualung (1971)
  • The Best of Jethro Tull - The Anniversary Collection (1993)
  • Ian Anderson Plays the Orchestral Jethro Tull (2005)
  • Aqualung Live (2005)
  • The Best of Acoustic Jethro Tull (2007)

    • Personnel

  • Ian Anderson: acoustic guitar, percussion, vocals, backing vocals
  • Martin Barre: acoustic and electric rhythm guitar, percussion
  • Jeffrey Hammond: alto recorder, backing vocals (Credited on Aqualung album as Jeffery Hammond-Hammond)
  • Clive Bunker: percussion
  • John Evan: Mellotron

    • The Mellotron was replaced by the accordion on the Aqualung Live album played by Andrew Giddings.

    References

    Mother Goose (song) Wikipedia
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