Go Tell Aunt Rhody


"Go Tell Aunt Rhody" is an English language folk song of nineteenth-century American origin. It has a Roud Folk Song Index number of 3346. The tune is older, dating to the 18th century. It originated as a gavotte in the 1752 opera Le devin du village by Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
The subject of the song is grief associated with loss, in this case from the death of an "old gray goose".

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The song was used as the theme and ending song to .