OLD GREY GOOSE, THE

Created on 26/01/2023
Latest update on 27/01/2023

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:

1944:

Woody Guthrie [as Go Tell Aunt Rhody]

1951:

Pete Seeger [as Go Tell Aunt Rhodie]

1956:

Burl Ives [as Aunt Rhody]

1959:

Lonnie Donegan [as Aunt Riley]

1974:

David Allan Coe [as The Old Grey Goose Is Dead (Go Tell Aunt Rhody)]

Not to be confused with Gray Goose (see there).

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