As I was listening to Rick Wakeman's introduction before playing his part (Gone but not forgotten):
I tried to decypher his little anecdote, but couldn't identify evrything.
Can you help me, please?
It starts at the thirteenth second. I wrote in italics what I could not understand. Here we go:
It's.. it's.. it's "Gone but not forgotten"
which I'm gonna play for
my Ma Mama mambers was marvelous to me, many respects, you know
................ "my-my-my Mama's was" ............... (he is so emotional that he is stuttering)
she died, you know a few years ago and she was, you know, very very important to me
she has taught me so many things, even in the early days, I remember
in the winter cause there was no heating upstairs
she's hold big old ten bars she used to bring in.. in the dining-room
.... "she has oh.. big old 'tim-bars' (a heating device, I guess)" ...
.... (his stream-of-thought talk contains extra syllables, that would be edited out of a final written draft)
where she choiced to stay
...... "I used to stand" .............
in that icy..
.... "in that iced tray (?or some baby-sized container)
she washed me with a big sponge
I can remember even, even then, words of wisdom
I can remember her and
I saw her washing me with this sponge
and washing
me dangly bits (slang for a boy's penis and scrotum)
and looking down
how do you freeze I go:
"Mammy have I brains?"
And she said: "Not yet, dear"