Mother Goose (song)

"Mother Goose"
Song by Jethro Tull from the album Aqualung
Released March 19, 1971
Recorded December 1970 - February 1971 at Island Studios, London
Genre Folk rock, progressive rock
Length 3:51
Label Reprise(original US)
Chrysalis/Capitol (US re-issue)
Writer(s) Ian Anderson
Producer(s) Ian Anderson, Terry Ellis
Aqualung track listing

"Cheap Day Return"
(3)
"Mother Goose"
(4)
"Wond'ring Aloud"
(5)

"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.

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

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