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Grey Goose (vodka)

Grey Goose is a brand of vodka produced in France. It was originally founded by Sidney Frank before its 2004 sale to Bacardi. The Maître de Chai for Grey Goose is François Thibault, who developed the original recipe for the vodka in Cognac, France.

Grey Goose (folk song)

"Grey Goose" is a traditional American folk song. Its subject is a preacher who hunts and captures a grey goose for dinner on a Sunday. He tries to kill the goose prior to eating it, but no matter how hard he tries, he cannot kill it, the implication being that he had not properly observed the Sabbath (however, there are other folk songs which may or may not have existed before this song that feature a Grey Goose, but not a preacher, that have a similar theme of the grey goose being indestructible). The various methods the preacher used to unsuccessfully kill the grey goose were, in order according to the song:

  • Shooting it
  • Boiling it
  • Feeding it to a hog
  • Cutting it with a mill-saw

It was recorded by Lead Belly in the 1930s. An instrumental version of this song was covered by members of the American band Nirvana and the Screaming Trees in Seattle in August 1989. The song was not released until 2004 on the box set titled With the Lights Out. In 2006, the children's music band Dan Zanes and Friends recorded a version of this song for the album Catch That Train. In 2010, the song was recorded with the simple accompaniment using harmonica and drums by Country Blues artist and Blues in Schools educator, Big Jon Short for his album Big Shorty. The song was also recorded by the band British Sea Power for one of the B-sides of their single " Please Stand Up". A poignant version of the song also was recorded by Sweet Honey in the Rock on the Grammy award winning album A Vision Shared produced by CBS as a tribute to Lead Belly (and Woody Guthrie) for Smithsonian Folkways.

Grey Goose

Grey Goose may refer to:

  • Gray Goose Laws, a collection of laws from the Icelandic Commonwealth period
  • Grey goose, a bird
  • Grey Goose (band), a band from Gainesville, Florida with Good Life Recordings
  • "Grey Goose" (folk song), a traditional American folk song, originally recorded by Lead Belly
  • Grey Goose (vodka), a brand of vodka distilled in Cognac, France from French wheat
  • Grey Goose Bus Lines, a subsidiary of Greyhound Canada
  • Grey Goose Music, a recording and music publishing company named after the folk song