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Spider of Destiny: /* Songs or tracks mentioning hands */

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Songs or tracks mentioning hands

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Songs or tracks mentioning hands

Spider of Destiny: Created page with 'Hands are very prominent in Zappa's cover art. * On the cover of We're Only In It For The Money a rubber hand can be seen sticking beneath the letter "M" on the left lower s…'

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Created page with 'Hands are very prominent in Zappa's cover art. * On the cover of We're Only In It For The Money a rubber hand can be seen sticking beneath the letter "M" on the left lower s…'

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Hands are very prominent in Zappa's cover art.

* On the cover of [[We're Only In It For The Money]] a rubber hand can be seen sticking beneath the letter "M" on the left lower side of the album.
* In the gatefold sleeve of [[We're Only In It For The Money]] Zappa can be seen making strange hand signals, while [[Ian Underwood]] holds up a piece of paper.
* [[Uncle Meat]]: Just below the title a large thumb can be seen.
* [[Burnt Weeny Sandwich]]: Several bloody hands are prominent.
* [[Weasels Ripped My Flesh]]: A shaving hand.
* [[Hot Rats]]: A hidden face, visible hands resting on the side of an empty swimming pool.
* [[Over-Nite Sensation]]: Two hands are seen, one appearing from the sky, fixing a street lamp. The other one taking a cigarette from a pack.
* [[One Size Fits All]]: One hand paints, the other holds the moon, another is twiddling Saturn, yet another is smoking a cigar.
* [[Joe's Garage]]: Hands add paint to Zappa's face.
* The [[Beat The Boots]] logo shows a hand holding a hammer

==Songs or tracks mentioning hands==
* [[Motherly Love]]: "And we'll take their hands"
* [[Call Any Vegetable]]: "Holding your hand while the neighbors decide."
* [[Uncle Bernie's Farm]]: "There's a dollar in his hand (check his wallet)"
* [[Flower Punk]]: "Hey punk, where you goin' with that flower in your hand?"
* [[Would You Go All The Way?]]: "Clutchin' at yer hand"
* [[The Air]]: "My hands!"
* [[Magdalena]]: "With the grubby little hand"
* [[Strictly Genteel (The Track)]]: "Reach out your hand to the girl in the dog book."
* [[Billy The Mountain]]: "A strong masculine hand"
* [[Montana]]: "Zircon encrusted tweezers in my hand."
* [[Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station]]: "Show me your thumb/if you think you're dumb"
* [[Find Her Finer]]: About sexual gratification through fingering
* [[Friendly Little Finger]]
* [[Disco Boy]]: "Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerkin' that will blide off your disco sorrow"
* [[Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy]]: "She stuck her hand right in it to the bottom"
* [[200 Years Old]]: "A glass of orange juice about as big as my finger"
* [[Man With The Woman Head]]: "The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand."
* [[Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit]] "... his pudgy little thumb"
* [[Titties And Beer]]: "Then she gave us the finger/It was raised stiff"
* [[Lemme Take You To The Beach]]: "Maybe I'll just hold your hand-eeee!"
* [[Sleep Dirt]]: "My finger got stuck!"
* [[I Have Been In You]]: "Ah, little girl, there ain't no time to wash your stinky hand"
* [[Wild Love]]: "Daddy's got a stinky finger"
* [[Catholic Girls]]: "With her hand in the box" (...) They'd meet each other there/hold hands and think pure thoughts"
* [[Dong Work For Yuda]]: "A great big weenie in both his hands"
* [[Packard Goose]]: "Fuck all them writers with the pen in their hand."
* [[I Don't Even Care]]: "What was hole is this lastin' hand"
* [[Uncle Meat Film Excerpt]]: Massimo gives a lesson in Italian, explaining "This is my left hand".
* [[Won Ton On]]: "Take your hand off that chain, honey!"
* [[More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version)]]: "And they smacked him on his little hand"
* [[Smell My Beard]]: "And he hits his thumb"
* [[The Dangerous Kitchen]]: "What you get on your hands then"
* [[Kaiser Rolls]]: "I raised my finger from the center of my hand."
* [[Tiny Sick Tears]]: "And you stick your tiny sick hand in the cookie jar."
* [[Do You Like My New Car?]]: "Roger Daltrey never laid a hand on me!"
* [[Frogs With Dirty Little Lips]]: "Dirty little warts on their finger-tips"
* [[Rhymin' Man]]: "Dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood" (a reference to [[Jesse Jackson]])
* [[Brevard Hand]]
* [[I Want To Hold Your Hand]]
* [[Hands With A Hammer]]

Also of note is the phrase "Hands Up!", which can be heard on the tracks [[Toads Of The Short Forest]], [[German Lunch]] and [[Tiny Sick Tears]]. In the film [[Baby Snakes (The Film)]] the phrase can also be heard from a toy police car.

==See also==
* [[Ben Watson]] about hands in Zappa's work. http://www.militantesthetix.co.uk/zappo/OSFAweb.htm

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 * [[Would You Go All The Way?]]: "Clutchin' at yer hand"
-Also of note is the phrase "Hands Up!", which can be heard on the tracks [[Toads Of The Short Forest]], [[German Lunch]] and [[Tiny Sick Tears]]. In the film [[Baby Snakes (The Film)]] the phrase can also be heard from a toy police car.
+Also of note is the phrase "Hands Up!", which can be heard on the tracks [[Toads Of The Short Forest]], [[German Lunch]], [[Tiny Sick Tears]] and [[The Walking Zombie Music]]. In the film [[Baby Snakes (The Film)]] the phrase can also be heard from a toy police car.
 ==See also==

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 * [[One Size Fits All]]: One hand paints, the other holds the moon, another is twiddling Saturn, yet another is smoking a cigar.
 * [[Joe's Garage Acts I, II & III|Joe's Garage]]: Hands add paint to Zappa's face.
-* The [[Beat The Boots]] logo shows a hand holding a hammer
+* The [[:Category:Beat The Boots|Beat The Boots]] logo shows a hand holding a hammer
 ==Songs or tracks mentioning hands==

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 * [[Billy The Mountain]]: "A strong masculine hand"
 * [[Brevard Hand]]
-* [[Call Any Vegetable]]: "Holding your hand while the neighbors decide."
+* [[Call Any Vegetable (1966 - Los Angeles)|Call Any Vegetable]]: "Holding your hand while the neighbors decide."
 * [[Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy]]: "She stuck her hand right in it to the bottom"
 * [[Catholic Girls]]: "With her hand in the box" (...) They'd meet each other there/hold hands and think pure thoughts"

@@ Line 13: / Line 13: @@
 ==Songs or tracks mentioning hands==
-* [[Motherly Love]]: "And we'll take their hands"
+* [[200 Years Old]]: "A glass of orange juice about as big as my finger"
 * [[The Air]]: "My hands!"
 * [[Billy The Mountain]]: "A strong masculine hand"
-* [[Montana]]: "Zircon encrusted tweezers in my hand."
+* [[Brevard Hand]]
-* [[Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station]]: "Show me your thumb/if you think you're dumb"
+* [[Call Any Vegetable]]: "Holding your hand while the neighbors decide."
 * [[Find Her Finer]]: About sexual gratification through fingering
 * [[Friendly Little Finger]]
-* [[Disco Boy]]: "Thank the Lord that you still got hands/that help you do that jerkin' that will blide off your disco sorrow"
+* [[Frogs With Dirty Little Lips]]: "Dirty little warts on their finger-tips"
-* [[Carolina Hard-Core Ecstasy]]: "She stuck her hand right in it to the bottom"
+* [[Hands With A Hammer]]
-* [[200 Years Old]]: "A glass of orange juice about as big as my finger"
+* [[I Don't Even Care]]: "What was hole is this lastin' hand"
-* [[Man With The Woman Head]]: "The face the color of a nicotine-stained hand."
+* [[I Have Been In You]]: "Ah, little girl, there ain't no time to wash your stinky hand"
 * [[Legend Of The Illinois Enema Bandit]] "... his pudgy little thumb"
 * [[Lemme Take You To The Beach]]: "Maybe I'll just hold your hand-eeee!"
 * [[Sleep Dirt]]: "My finger got stuck!"
-* [[I Have Been In You]]: "Ah, little girl, there ain't no time to wash your stinky hand"
+* [[Smell My Beard]]: "And he hits his thumb"
 * [[Wild Love]]: "Daddy's got a stinky finger"
-* [[Catholic Girls]]: "With her hand in the box" (...) They'd meet each other there/hold hands and think pure thoughts"
+* [[Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station]]: "Show me your thumb/if you think you're dumb"
 * [[Won Ton On]]: "Take your hand off that chain, honey!"
-* [[More Trouble Every Day (Swaggart Version)]]: "And they smacked him on his little hand"
+* [[Would You Go All The Way?]]: "Clutchin' at yer hand"
 Also of note is the phrase "Hands Up!", which can be heard on the tracks [[Toads Of The Short Forest]], [[German Lunch]] and [[Tiny Sick Tears]]. In the film [[Baby Snakes (The Film)]] the phrase can also be heard from a toy police car.

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 * [[Do You Like My New Car?]]: "Roger Daltrey never laid a hand on me!"
 * [[Frogs With Dirty Little Lips]]: "Dirty little warts on their finger-tips"
-* [[Rhymin' Man]]: "Dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood" (a reference to [[Jesse Jackson]])
+* [[Rhymin' Man]]: "Dipped his hands in the Doctor's blood" (a reference to [[Rhymin'_Man#Notes_About_This_Song|Jesse Jackson]])
 * [[Brevard Hand]]
 * [[I Want To Hold Your Hand]]