Go Tell Aunt Rhody

{{Short description|English language folk song of nineteenth-century American origin}}

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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.{{Cite web|url=https://bibliolore.org/2012/06/28/rousseau-and-aunt-rhody/|title=Rousseau and Aunt Rhody|last=|first=|date=2012-06-28|website=Bibliolore|language=en-US|access-date=2020-01-14}}{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=11vTdsx_zZIC&pg=PA23 |title=Acoustic Music Source Book |first=Richard L. Jr. |last=Matteson |date=2012-03-01|publisher=Mel Bay Publications|isbn=978-1-61911-099-1|language=en}}

The subject of the song is grief associated with loss, in this case from the death of an "old gray goose".{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=25xCCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA293 |title=Teaching Mindfulness Skills to Kids and Teens |last1=Willard |first1=Christopher |last2=Saltzman |first2=Amy |date=2015-09-24 |publisher=Guilford Publications|isbn=978-1-4625-2238-5|language=en}}