Cherry Bomb Lyrics
By John Mellencamp

Below you'll find the Cherry Bomb lyrics and my full free version acoustic demo.

The song was from the 1987 Lonesome Jubilee album and reached #1 on the charts for Mellencamp that same year.




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Full Tutorial - 9 min 32 sec

--- Start Of Cherry Bomb Lyrics ---

Well ... I lived on the outskirts of town
In an eight room farmhouse baby
When my brothers and friends were around
There was always somethin doin
Had me a couple of real nice girlfriends
Stopped by to see me every once in a while
When I think back about those days
All I can do is sit and smile

Thats when sport was a sport
And groovin was groovin
And dancin meant everything
We were young and we were improvin
Laughin laughin ... with our friends
Holding hands meant somethin baby
Outside the club ... cherry bomb
Where our hearts ... were really thumpin
Say yeah yeah yeah ... Say yeah yeah yeah


The winter days they last forever
But the weekends went by so quick
We ridin around this little country town
We were goin nuts girl .. out in the stick
One night me with my big mouth
A couple guys had to put me in my place
When I see those guys these days we just
Laugh and say .. do you remember when

Thats when sport was a sport
And groovin was groovin
And dancin meant everything
We were young and we were improvin
Laughin laughin ... with our friends
Holding hands meant somethin baby
Outside the club ... cherry bomb
Where our hearts ... were really thumpin
Say yeah yeah yeah ... Say yeah yeah yeah

Break --- Say Yeah Yeah Yeah --- Say Yeah Yeah Yeah

Seventeen has turned thirty-five
Im surprised that were still livin
If weve done .. any wrong
I hope that were forgiven
Got a few kids on my own
And some days I still dont know what to do
I hope that theyre not laughtin too loud
When they hear me talkin like ... this to you

Thats when sport was a sport
And groovin was groovin
And dancin meant everything
We were young and we were improvin
Laughin laughin ... with our friends
Holding hands meant somethin baby
Outside the club ... cherry bomb
Where our hearts ... were really thumpin
Say yeah yeah yeah ... Say yeah yeah yeah

--- End Of Cherry Bomb ---

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