Re: "Go tell Aunt Rhody"

I am 73 years old. My grandmother sang this song to me while rocking me to sleep. My great grandmother was a piano teacher,so she might have bought the collection of Southern and Appalachian folk songs when my uncle was born around 1918. If I were to search for European origins, I would begin with Scotch-Irish traditions. So many songs emanate from plagues, such as the "Black Death." Maybe the song came from a poultry disease many years ago in Europe.