Mother Goose (song)

"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.

"Mother Goose"
Song by Jethro Tull
from the album Aqualung
Released19 March 1971 (1971-03-19)
RecordedDecember 1970  February 1971
StudioIsland, London
Genre
Length3:51
Label
Songwriter(s)Ian Anderson
Producer(s)

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".[1] The song is mostly acoustic, like "Cheap Day Return" or "Slipstream". Rolling Stone magazine has put it as "Elizabethan madrigal" musical style.[2]

Recorded appearances

Personnel

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

References

  1. http://www.tullpress.com/d20mar71.htm
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2006-05-07. Retrieved 2015-04-08.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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