Dr. Hook & The Medicine Show ~ 'Sylvia's Mother'

Album: Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show.
Utgitt: 1972
Låtskrivere: Shel Silverstein
Label: CBS ‎– CBS 7929

"Sylvia's Mother" is a 1972 single by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show and the group's first hit song. It was written by Shel Silverstein, produced by Ron Haffkine and was highly successful in the United States, reaching #5 on the Billboard singles chart (tied with "Sexy Eyes" from the album Sometimes You Win for the band's best performing song), as well as #1 in Ireland and #2 in the United Kingdom. It spent 3 weeks at #1 on the Australian music charts, making it the 15th ranked single in Australia for 1972; and also reached #1 in South Africa, where it was the 3rd ranked song for the year. It appeared on the group's first album, Dr. Hook.
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Lyrics:
Dr Hook perform Sylvias Mother
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.

[pratipmondal]

One of my favourite song ever I heard. Anyone listening in 2025?❤

[johnjenkins]

This song was released the week I was discharged from the army. I sent a letter every week to the girl I loved but her mother never gave them to her. Her mother wanted her to marry a man with money and not someone who loved and cherished her. She was abused mentally and physically for almost 25 years until she finally had enough. After her divorce I finally reunited with her and the last 21 years have been the best years of our lives. If you truly love someone, don't give up. My father told me the night we broke up in 1971, Son, if it's meant to be, it will happen, just be patient.

[garyhoward]

67 years old this is how music should sound

[mikewhite]

What makes 60’s and 70’s music better is it was based on true stories.

[jean-pierredegreef]

I am listening and I am 74 years old.... This was my music when I was young. So beautiful....

[monicacooper]

63yo and still love and listen to
Dr Hooks music. ❤

[josephrodney]

I sang this song to Sylvia Decker on her Hospital bed. She was dying. She had no other visitors to speak of. She got a pair of shoes for Christmas. We laughed and laughed because she had lost her feet to Diabetes.. She was old and wrinkled, but had a heart of gold. I hold this song dear because Mrs Decker died just a few days later. It had started to rain, , She went to catch the 9 o'clock train, to that new life.

[BibTheBoulderTheOriginalOne]

Who will still be listening to this ten years from now?

[kevinshea]

All the people are listening to this have a big heart and a good one good times

[ElizabethHaney-ue]

They don't make music like this anymore

[davehammill]

Sitting here at nearly 75 wondering where life has gone listening to this song and loving the bit of peace it brings

[ianmcnair]

Who still loving Dr Hook in 2022 great vocals great song great words don't make songs like this no more was only born late 80s but love this sort music.

[DD-vlku]

Shout out to everyone listening to this and feeling every note to their core. If you’ve never pleaded with Miss Avery, you’ve never really lived.

[curtissanders]

Listening 2024 im fifty three growed up with music

[yasant]

I was 15 years old on '72. This was the first single I bought. Still have it and love it almost 50 years after!!

[bessiemann]

I grew up listening to this song and still listen in 2025.

[randallterry]

This will be one of my most favorite songs ever. Sounds even better in 2025 with all this chaos!!

[kathreenlove]

Just 18year old but I love this song and music like this! Was raised on it. Music these days has nothing on older music!!!

[AstridBahari]

I am 65 and live in Sweden and I still love this song!❤