My Own Bare Hands
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| Song by Ween | |||||
| from the album La Cucaracha | |||||
| Released | October 23, 2007 | ||||
| Length | 2:45 | ||||
| Label | Chocodog Records, Rounder | ||||
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"My Own Bare Hands" is a song by Ween from the 2007 album La Cucaracha. On some editions it is titled "With My Own Bare Hands".
Song Details[edit | edit source]
"My Own Bare Hands" is a song in the key of A# minor.
The lead vocals are sung by Dean Ween, who also plays guitar on the track, including the lead guitar solos.
Ween began playing "My Own Bare Hands" live in the fall of 2007 on the La Cucaracha tour, and it has been a common live Ween song ever since.[1] It has also been played numerous times by the Dean Ween Group.[2]
Dean Ween explained the song's origins in an interview with Village Voice:
When I met my wife, she was aspiring to be a teacher—we’ve been together 17 years, we’ve been married 11 years. She had just gotten out of college, and she had to get her teaching credentials in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, then she went and got her master’s degree. And then I ended up having to pay off these student loans—and then, just about the time it was all said and done, we had a baby and she quit and, like, never worked again. Meanwhile, I’m paying off these student loans. I was really pissed off at her, so I wrote that song, and that’s where that verse comes from.[3]
Song Themes[edit | edit source]
Homosexuality, Poop, Profanity/Swearing, Screaming, Sex, Sung by Dean Ween