Description:

A goat-composer suffering writer's block follows advice to use a melody given to him. He doesn't realise that it's a well known children's song about a little grey goat allowed to walk in the woods and then eaten by wolves...

A decent English translation of the original song can be found here on LyricsTranslate (although the third verse there is one of many possible humorous variations). The melody has some similarities with a number of related folk tunes from other countries, including Estonian 17th century bagpipe tunes, the Viennese song "O du lieber Augustin", and the American "Hail to the Bus Driver".