Botanda Song

"Botanda Song"
Freedom demo tape insert
Song by Ween
from the album Freedom
Recorded	Summer 1992
Studio	Graphic Sound Studio
Length	2:41
Songwriter(s)	Ween, Paul Simon
Freedom track listing
"Streetfight" (1) "Botanda Song" (2) "Spinal Meningitis (Got Me Down)" (3)
Ween In 1992 Work Master track listing
"I Still Love You" (1) "Botanda Song" (2) "Ode to Rene" (3)

"Botanda Song" (also stylized as "Botandasong") is an unreleased song by Ween, from the Freedom and Ween In 1992 Work Master demo tapes. It is an outtake from the Chocolate and Cheese sessions, recorded in the summer of 1992.

Song Details

"Botanda Song" was recorded in the summer of 1992 at Greg & Pat Frey's Graphic Sound Studio in East Amwell, New Jersey, prior to the main Chocolate and Cheese recording sessions with Andrew Weiss. It can be found on the Chocolate and Cheese Demos: Summer 1992 bootleg, under the informal title "Short Span of Attention".

The song's lyrics and vocal melody interpolates parts of "You Can Call Me Al" by Paul Simon.

Lyrics

Man comes down the street, he says, "I gotta feed [?]"

[?], oh my life has gone by

I need something [?], I gotta get my [?]"

She said, "baby take you, take it down, going for a ride"

[?] the [?] with the kid's little [?]

And a [?]

[?]

[?]

[?]

I need a photo opportunity, I need slide to float

I gotta get somethin' hairless, I gotta get my life in [?]

I gotta [?], I gotta [?]

I gotta [?], you know that Boognish all the way up the [?]

Man comes down, check it out, he's got a little short in his hands

He's got a short little mind of his own, he says, "Why don't drink both of those [?]?"

I've got his wife and kids now, I've got three children [?]

I've got four or five or six now, oh my jesus it's so dreary now

[?], [?]

Got a little short span of attention now, little [?]

[?], [?]

Got a wife, community, got a little [?], he say

Got a little thang on my [?], got a little florg on my [?]

Got a little chick on my jig , got a little flaggy on my bike

Got a little tick on my dick, got a little flick on my frick

[?]

Quest for opportunity, come down to [?]

Come down to [?], all my life has gone by

I said "[?]," I said "one question opportunity

I wanna question my own life in this, 52nd Street is not so bad

I need a forty [?], I'm going down to supermarket Eric goes [?]

[?] beer belly

This song is going for the rest of my life, this time my life [?]

Got a short little span of attention and, woah, my life is so hard

Song Themes

Boognish, Love