Standard (EADGBE)

Intro

Verse i

 I was thinking back

 To the first time we met

 Over plangent chords

 In a sad vignette

 You were waving goodbye

 In a cherry red corvette

 And your lips were too

 Cherry red that is,

 with the sky so blue

 It was almost mean

 and your eyes were too

 So blue that is,

 now I am too

 And my heart burns cherry red for you

Chorus

 Now my heart burns cherry red for you

 Like a fire of beech wood, the saw don't like it

 But you get some cut, one match will strike it

 And the embers glow till the wee small hours

 When the old seems almost new

 That's when my heart burns cherry red for you

Verse ii

It was cherry red with custom flames

At the hot rod show when the Kingsmen came

And that bass guitar, it rattled my frame

And it shook you too

The corvette was Big Daddy Roth's design

Get your picture for a dollar

And have it signed

First you got yours then I got mine

And my heart burned cherry red for you

Chorus

Now my heart burns cherry red for you

Like a fire of beech wood, the saw don't like it

But you get some cut, one match will strike it

And the embers glow till the wee small hours

When the old seems almost new

That's when my heart burns cherry red for you

That's when my heart

Burns cherry red

My heart burns cherry red

That's when my heart burns

Cherry red for you

Verse iii

Now that fake blue sky,

It sure looks real

Like you were goin'

To California to make a deal

With the God of youth,

With the man of steel

Waving toodle-oo

Now if I was young,

I might track you down

But this old picture is all I found

Now my bones are shakin',

My teeth are ground down

And my heart burns cherry red for you

Chorus iii

Now my heart burns cherry red for you

Like a fire of beech wood, the sun don't like it

But you get some cut, one match will strike it

And the embers glow till the wee small hours

When the old seems almost new

That's when my heart burns cherry red

That's when my heart burns cherry red

That's when my heart burns cherry red for you