Studio Island, London | Length 3:51 | |
Released 19 March 1971 (1971-03-19) Recorded December 1970 – February 1971 Genre Folk rockprogressive rock |
"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
Personnel
The Mellotron was replaced by the accordion on the Aqualung Live album played by Andrew Giddings.
References
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