Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)

"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)"
Single by Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band
from the album Fly
A-side	"Cold Turkey"
Released	20 October 1969 (U.S.) 24 October 1969 (UK)
Format	7"
Recorded	3 October 1969 at Studio A, Lansdowne Studios, London, England
Genre	Rock
Length	4:52
Label	Apple
Songwriter(s)	Yoko Ono
Producer(s)	John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono and Plastic Ono Band singles chronology
"Give Peace a Chance/Remember Love" (1969) "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (1969) "Instant Karma!/Who Has Seen the Wind" (1970)
"Give Peace a Chance/Remember Love" (1969) "Cold Turkey/Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (1969) "Instant Karma!/Who Has Seen the Wind" (1970)
Some Time in New York City track listing
16 tracks  Side one "Woman Is the Nigger of the World" "Sisters O Sisters" "Attica State" "Born in a Prison" "New York City Side two "Sunday Bloody Sunday" "The Luck of the Irish" "John Sinclair" "Angela" "We're All Water" Side three "Cold Turkey" "Don't Worry Kyoko" Side four "Well (Baby Please Don't Go)" "Jamrag" "Scumbag" "Au"

"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" (also known as "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for a Hand in the Snow)" or "Don't Worry Kyoko") is a song by Yoko Ono that was originally released by Plastic Ono Band in October 1969 as the B-side of John Lennon's single "Cold Turkey" and was later released on Ono's 1971 album Fly. Several live versions have been released, including on Live Peace in Toronto 1969 and Some Time in New York City in 1972. An early version was titled "Mum's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow." It has been covered by several other artists.

"Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" was inspired by Lennon's and Ono's custody fight with Ono's ex-husband Anthony Cox over Cox's and Ono's daughter Kyoko, representing Ono's attempt to communicate with her daughter. Ono and Kyoko were finally reunited in the 1990s when Kyoko was in her thirties.

The lyrics of "Don't Worry Kyoko (Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow)" consist primarily of Ono wailing the phrase "don't worry." On the live version included on Live Peace in Toronto 1969 the phrase "mummy's only looking for her hand in the snow" is also included. The song is driven primarily by a blues-based guitar riff played by Lennon and Eric Clapton. John Blaney describes the riff as "hypnotic." Authors Ken Bielen and Ben Urish describe that Lennon and Clapton alternate between a "lilting semi-slide" groove and playing "sniping bites." The other musicians on the studio version are Klaus Voorman on bass guitar and Ringo Starr on drums. According to Bielen and Urish, Starr's drumming variations ensure that the tension keeps mounting.

Allmusic critic Ned Raggett describes Ono's vocal as a "screwy blues yowl," claiming that it suggests "something off Led Zeppelin III gone utterly berserk."New York Times critic Allan Kozinn compares Ono's vocal to "a wailing, overdriven electric guitar," claiming its virtuosity compares with the actual electric guitar playing of Lennon and Clapton.

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