| Jethro Tull – Mother Goose Lyrics | 14 years ago |
| Well done, StoneCrow - much better than my interpretation. But just to clarify, I didn't mean Martin Barre was a shabby guitarist, just that it's an excellent song to take an intermediate acoustic guitarist to a higher level. There are a lot of good guitar lessons hidden in the song structure and technique. | |
| Jethro Tull – Mother Goose Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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I could be all wrong on this, but I've always heard it as a story of a kid who's leaving little kid things behind (Mother Goose) and entering into the world of his own imagination. Sort of a coming of age story, but the only one I know of that talks about the little kid --> bigger kid transition instead of the kid --> adult transition. A mack is a raincoat. 4 and 20 is a number that appears often in English folk songs and folk tales, where JT gets a lot of their musical and lyrical inspiration. The association with weed is unrelated and wasn't invented until the 70s at UC Berkeley or Santa Barabara, if I remember correctly. But yeah, in general it's just a fun song. It also happens to be a great song to learn to play for an intermediate acoustic guitarist. |
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