# what is Ween's "Freedom of '76" about?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [August 19, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-weens-freedom-of-76-about/260623 "2004-08-19T23:12:42Z")\
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**Author:** ![Freejooky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ba8739/32.png) [@Freejooky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freejooky)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2004, 11:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-weens-freedom-of-76-about/260623/1 "2004-08-19T23:12:42Z")

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the lyrics:

Freedom of the body  
Freedom of the mind  
A ho on South Street hired for tricks  
Little girls pickin’ up sticks  
Freedom of '76

Wastee little weasel  
Wants cheap tricks  
Liberty bell cracked in half  
A bacon steak  
A perfect match  
Freedom of '76

My girl Sasha  
Lookin’ good on the street  
“Mannequin” was filmed at Woolworth’s  
Boyz II Men still keepin’ up the beat, yeah  
Freedom of '76

Fairmount Park in the summer  
Lookin’ good on the street  
“Mannequin” was filmed at Woolworth’s  
Boyz II Men still keepin’ up the beat, yeah  
Freedom of '76, nah yeah, yeah  
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

Ohh, baby, yeah yeah, yeah

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**Author:** ![igloorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/858c86/32.png) [@igloorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/igloorex)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 12:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-weens-freedom-of-76-about/260623/2 "2004-08-20T00:31:51Z")

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No idea. But just checking with the friendly reminder that posting complete (or nearly complete) lyrics to songs is very frowned upon here.

Check out the cafe society policies sticky at the top of the forum.

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**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-weens-freedom-of-76-about/260623/3 "2004-08-20T00:33:54Z")

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It’s about Prince and sappy nostalgic songs.

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**Author:** ![foxymoron](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/d26b3c/32.png) [@foxymoron](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foxymoron)\
**Post date:** [August 20, 2004, 12:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-weens-freedom-of-76-about/260623/4 "2004-08-20T00:39:31Z")

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For the longest time (well, a couple of months, anyway) I thought that _was_ a Prince song.  
Ween makes me cringe a lot, and I can’t decide if I like them because of that, or in spite of it.