OKSleeper

<p>Sylvia's mother says, Sylvia's busy,</p><p>Too busy to come to the phone.......</p><p><br></p><p><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Like most of the early songs recorded by Dr. Hook &amp; the Medicine Show, this was written by Shel Silverstein. In the song, Sylvia's mother is Mrs. Avery, and while that wasn't her real last name, the rest of the story - exaggerated a bit - was true. Silversteen told&nbsp;</span><em style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">Rolling Stone</em><span style="color: rgb(103, 102, 102);">&nbsp;in 1972: "I just changed the last name, not to protect the innocent, but because it didn't fit. It happened about eight years ago and was pretty much the way it was in the song. I called Sylvia and her mother said, 'She can't talk to you.' I said, 'Why not?' Her mother said she was packing and she was leaving to get married, which was a big surprise to me. The guy was in Mexico and he was a bullfighter and a painter. At the time I thought that was like being a combination brain surgeon and encyclopedia salesman."</span></p>