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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.
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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.
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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)
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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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References
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External links
- Mother Goose on AllMusic
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