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"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 (The Village Soothsayer) by Jean-Jacques Rousseau. [1] [2]
The subject of the song is grief associated with loss, in this case from the death of an "old gray goose". [3]
Gomer Pyle (Jim Nabors) sings it as a lullaby to a baby in Gomer Pyle, U.S.M.C. season 4 episode 29 "And Baby Makes Three" (1968). [4]
A version of the song was created by composer Michael A. Levine and musician Jordan Reyne for Capcom's 2017 survival horror game Resident Evil 7: Biohazard . [5]
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Rhody may refer to:
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