Mother Goose (song)
| "Mother Goose" | |
|---|---|
| Song by Jethro Tull | |
| from the album Aqualung | |
| Released | 19 March 1971 |
| Recorded | December 1970 – February 1971 |
| Studio | Island, London |
| Genre | |
| Length | 3:51 |
| Label | |
| Songwriter(s) | Ian Anderson |
| Producer(s) | |
"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
- 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)
- 50 for 50 Jethro Tull (2018)
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
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