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".