APRON STRINGS [live performance]

from O LIST! by The Ophelias

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Track: 12
Title: APRON STRINGS [live performance]
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: Public domain
Recording date: 21 April 1989
Recording place: The I-Beam, 1748 Haight Street, San Francisco, CA
The bill was: The Ophelias / Love, featuring Arthur Lee
Recorded onto cassette via mixing board
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 06:15
First appeared on: O List!
Released 4 December 2018
[via multiple streaming services]

Leslie Medford : vocals, acoustic guitar
David Immerglück : electric guitar, vocals
Terry von Blankers : bass guitar
Edward Benton : drums

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APRON STRINGS

When I was just a baby, tied to the apron strings,
I said, “Mama, Mama, what you do to me?
“I know I am a bad boy – as bad as I can be –
“But Mama, Mama, won’t you set me free?”

My mother – feather duster – says, “If you go to sea
O Leslie, Leslie, what becomes of me?
Without my little sunshine shining down on me,
O Leslie, Leslie, you'll break the heart of me!”

My Mother she untied me. The world I had to see!
“O Mama, Mama, don’t you cry for me.
“You know I’ll be a good boy – as good as I can be –
But Mama, Mama, I’m going to sail the sea!”
Heave-Ho!

I shortly found my fortune, unfortunately.
O Leslie, Leslie, the bottom of the sea.
And now I see my Mama. She’s looking down on me.
She said, “Leslie, I shoulda left ye tied to my apron strings!”

I'm goin' home!

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from O LIST!, released December 4, 2018

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The Ophelias are a psychedelic rock band formed in San Francisco in 1984.

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