"Get Your Hands off My Woman" is a song by the English

England

England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...

 rock band

Rock Band

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, The Darkness. Released in February 2003, the song was the band's first notable single

Single (music)

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 and won a Metal Hammer

Metal Hammer

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"Golden God" award for best single, despite being the band's lowest charting single worldwide. Later in 2003, the song appeared on the band's first album, Permission to Land

Permission to Land

Permission to Land is the debut studio album by British hard rock band The Darkness, released in the United Kingdom on 7 July 2003 and in the United States on 5 August 2003. The album topped the UK Albums Chart and reached number thirty-six on the American Billboard 200 chart...

. Credited to all four members of the group, the song supposedly reflected personal experiences of lead vocalist Justin Hawkins

Justin Hawkins

Justin David Hawkins is an English musician and singer-songwriter, best known for being the lead singer and lead guitarist of The Darkness, alongside his brother, guitarist Dan Hawkins...

. "Get Your Hands off My Woman" became a sing-along favourite at concerts by The Darkness, in part due to its parodic obscenity

Obscenity

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. The song was covered by Ben Folds

Ben Folds

Benjamin Scott "Ben" Folds is an American singer-songwriter, record producer, and television personality. From 1995-2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the alternative rock band Ben Folds Five. Since the group disbanded, Folds has performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world...

 on his 2004 EP Super D.

Tracklisting

UK CD Single

1. "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" - 3:18
2. "The Best Of Me" - 3:18
3. "Get Your Hands Off My Woman" (Clean Radio Version) - 3:07

Chart performance

Chart (2003)	Peak position
UK Singles Chart	43

External links

• News story on The Darkness, including discussion of "Get Your Hands off My Woman"
• Review of concert by The Darkness, including "Get Your Hands off My Woman" from New Times Broward-Palm Beach
  New Times Broward-Palm Beach
  New Times Broward-Palm Beach is an alternative weekly newspaper; it is part of the Village Voice Media chain. The paper split off from the Miami New Times in 1997, under the auspices of then editor-in-chief Tom Walsh. Walsh was succeeded by Chuck Strouse, who was replaced in 2005 with Tony Ortega...