That strand of Who songs that treats sexual matters with transparent, daft, adolescent humour: 'Squeeze Box', for instance, on the By Numbers album. OK: but 'Mary Ann With the Shaky Hands' ... what's that about?
Linda can cookWhat have they done to a man? Wanked him off, presumably; unless we truly are dealing with a song about early-onset Parkinsonianism and a very specialised medical fetish. So is the song suggesting that full sex with various talented women is all very well and good, but can't compare with manual stimulation by Mary-Ann? Hard to swallow. If you see what I mean.
Jean reads books
Cindy can sew
But I'd rather know
Mary Ann with the shaky hands
What they've done to a man
Those sha-a-aky hands
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