“Matilda Mother” is a song by British psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). Written by Syd Barrett, the song is sung mostly by Richard Wright with Barrett joining in on the last verse. The lyrics quote fragments of fairy tales as read from a book to the singer by his mother (“read(ing) the scribbly black”, referring to writing in a book as a child sees it), and in the chorus he implores her to “tell me more”. The song ……