Dr Hook - Sylvia's Mother

"Sylvia's Mother" was a 1972 single by Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show and the group's first hit song. It was written by Shel Silverstein and was highly successful in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard singles chart, as well as #1 in Ireland and #2 in the United Kingdom.

Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's busy, too busy to come to the phone
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's tryin' to start a new life of her own
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's happy so why don't you leave her alone
And the operator says forty cents more for the next three minutes

Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her,
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell her goodbye

Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's packin' she's gonna be leavin' today
Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's marryin' a fella down Galveston way
Sylvia's mother says please don't say nothin' to make her start cryin' and stay
And the operator says forty cents more for the next three minutes

Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her,
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell her goodbye

Sylvia's mother says Sylvia's hurryin' she's catchin' the nine o'clock train
Sylvia's mother says take your umbrella cause Sylvie, it's startin' to rain
And Sylvia's mother says thank you for callin' and sir won't you call back again
And the operator says forty cents more for the next three minutes

Please Mrs. Avery, I just gotta talk to her,
I'll only keep her a while
Please Mrs. Avery, I just wanna tell her goodbye

Tell her goodbye...
Please... tell her goodbye...

Category:

Music

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• Dr.
• Hook
• And
• The
• Medicine
• Show
• Sylvia's
• Mother
• Official
• Music
• Video

[sluxcon]

Awesome Song!

[Lillcless]

this songtext is written down in my english book! :D

i loooove this song, very nice and everybody is singing this beautifut "please mrs avery" ... ! yeah!

[xenogears944]

This will neverrr diee

[kathymoore57]

been sinin' this for yrs.30 or more!

[TruckDriver1987]

i love it :) vervy cool thx for post this video

[EvrenB123]

Wow today, in English lession we had to listen to a song and say whats it's about.So we listened and it was this song, first I thought it's Johnny Cash. But now I see it's not him.... But anyway this song is good

[GSK5621]

Do yourself a favour and watch the original video on Shel Silverstein's houseboat without the stupid phone box.

[BetweenFrames]

Mrs. Avery doesn't like this video.

[Nfirstmom]

I woke up thinking about this song this morning. No rhyme or

reason. I love, love, love this song. Thank-you so much for

sharing.

[TheNicklees]

i think sylvias mother was a right norris

[PERR0BASTARD0]

OHRWURM *__*