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 | ||||
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"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)
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.
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