Artist: Carolina Tar Heels
Author: traditional
Label: Victor
Year: 1929
Roud #3346. Also as The Old Grey Goose Is Dead and as Go Tell Aunt Rhody. The tune comes from Jean-Jacques Rousseau's gavotte in his opera Le Divin du village (1752).
Covers:
Woody Guthrie [as Go Tell Aunt Rhody]
Pete Seeger [as Go Tell Aunt Rhodie]
Burl Ives [as Aunt Rhody]
Lonnie Donegan [as Aunt Riley]
David Allan Coe [as The Old Grey Goose Is Dead (Go Tell Aunt Rhody)]
Not to be confused with Gray Goose (see there).
If you noticed blunt omissions, mis-interpretations or even out-and-out errors,
please let me know:
Arnold Rypens
Rozenlaan 65
B-2840 Reet (Rumst)