Track: 8
Title: Apron Strings
Authorship: Medford
Publishing: BrowBeat Music, BMI
Recording date: July 1990
Recording place: 1881 Drake Drive, Oakland, CA, home demo
Engineered by: Leslie Medford – TEAC 3440 4-track reel-to-reel
Remastered by Carl Salbacka & Leslie Medford
Running Time: 06:06
First appeared on: The Heaven Insects (Bandcamp)
First released 2 August 2021
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, yes ye will!”
But 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, child!”
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