Cherry Red

by Pete Johnson Big Joe Turner recording of 19 from Joe Turner's Blues (Pearl 1070) Run here pretty baby, set down on your daddy's knee I want to tell ev'rybody, how you've been sending me Now if that's your secret, you can keep it to yourself 'Cause if you tell me, I might tell somebody else I ain't never loved and I hope I never will Because a lovin' proposition, will get somebody killed Lead me pretty baby, 'cause you know I can be led Squeeze me pretty baby until my face turns cherry red

 

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Playing "Help-Me" In the Style of Sonny Boy Williamson II: A step by step, note for note analysis of some of Sonny Boy's Signature Riffs