The title stems from the fact that this tune was used as the melody for a song for Thomas Jefferson's 1800 US presidential campaign. The original tune was named The Gobby-O, a title that may refer to a beggar boy, someone that talks too much, or perhaps a small freshwater fish.
Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Jefferson_and_Liberty_(1)
Ref: https://tunearch.org/wiki/Annotation:Gobby-O_(The)
Ref: https://thesession.org/tunes/5806
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