Piss up a rope - Wikipedia Piss up a rope This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( July 2012 ) `` Piss Up a Rope '' Single by Ween from the album 12 Golden Country Greats B - side `` Sweet Texas Fire '' Released Genre Alternative country, comedy Length 3 : 34 Songwriter ( s ) Gene Ween, Dean Ween `` Piss Up a Rope '' is a song by the band Ween in 1996 from the album 12 Golden Country Greats. It was released on 7 '' yellow vinyl single on Diesel Only Records. History When asked about the lyrics `` You can wash my balls with a warm wet rag '' and `` On your knees, you big bootied bitch, '' Dean Ween stated that he wrote the song for his wife. The inspiration for the title came from his father : `` ( It is ) a funny expression that I copped from my dad. When I was a kid, he used to say, ' Aw, go piss up a rope. ' It was just nonsense. It was like, ' Aw, go shit in your hat ' or whatever. '' In popular culture The song is heard in the background in a scene in the cafe from a May 2008 episode of English soap EastEnders. The song can be heard in the movie U Turn when Bobby ( Sean Penn ) asks Darrell ( Billy Bob Thornton ) to replace a radiator hose. References Jump up ^ Eric Spitznagel ( July 20, 2012 ). `` Dean Ween on Ween : `` We 've Never Broken Up '' ``. MTVHive ( interview ). Ween Dean Ween Gene Ween Claude Coleman Jr. Dave Dreiwitz Glenn McClelland Internationally released studio albums GodWeenSatan : The Oneness The Pod Pure Guava Chocolate and Cheese 12 Golden Country Greats The Mollusk Craters of the Sac White Pepper Quebec Shinola, Vol. 1 La Cucaracha Independently released studio albums The Crucial Squeegie Lip Axis : Bold as Boognish Erica Peterson 's Flaming Crib Death The Live Brain Wedgie / WAD Prime 5 Live albums Paintin ' the Town Brown : Ween Live 1990 -- 1998 Live in Toronto Canada Live at Stubb 's Live in Chicago At The Cat 's Cradle, 1992 GodWeenSatan Live Song articles `` Push th ' Little Daisies '' `` Freedom of ' 76 '' `` Voodoo Lady '' `` Piss Up a Rope '' `` Mutilated Lips '' `` Ocean Man '' `` Even If You Do n't '' Related articles Chocodog Records Moistboyz Synthetic Socks The Friends EP Z - Rock Hawaii Josh Freese Ween discography This 1990s single -- related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Piss_Up_a_Rope&oldid=795025951 '' Categories : 1996 singles Ween songs 1996 songs Songs written by Gene Ween Songs written by Dean Ween 1990s single stubs Hidden categories : Articles needing additional references from July 2012 All articles needing additional references Articles with hAudio microformats All articles with unsourced statements Articles with unsourced statements from June 2013 All stub articles Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 11 August 2017, at 14 : 50. About Wikipedia

Question: where did piss up a rope come from
Answer: a song by the band Ween in 1996 from the album 12 Golden Country Greats