Page type: lyric reference
Artist: Count Basie
Canonical path: /count-basie/cherry-red
Related lyric paths: 6
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Cherry Red
Read Cherry Red lyrics by Count Basie on LyroVerse, with linked artist context and related song paths.
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Cherry Red
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Run here, pretty mama
Sit down on your daddy's knee
So I can tell everybody
How you've been sending me
Mama, if this is your secret
You better keep it to yourself
Because if you tell me
I might, I might tell somebody else
I like it red, big fat mama
With the meat shakin' on her bone
And every time she walks down the street
Some steely the woman and longs to home
And longs to home
I want you to take me, pretty mama
I want you to love me, mama
Till my face turns like cherry red
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Count Basie performs "Cherry Red", and this lyric page sits inside the Count Basie catalog on LyroVerse.
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