John Mellencamp - Cherry Bomb Lyrics

Groovin yeah yeah yeah

The part of the vid where the two girls are dancing in unison is such a great look into American nostalgia and it warms my heart to see the simple America where dancing "meant everything"...one of the greatest songs to flood the mind with thoughts of the past and how great it was!!!

AMEN JEFF

Now it's 51 has turned 69(!).

Clássico dos anos 80, alguém do Brasil em 2020 eu 20/01...

One of my all time favorites of John Mellencamp. Great song

I love how John Dances

My FAVorite! :)

Just today …. was after work drivin, rush hour rushin, I was thinkin bout the death of the station wagon. Then I thought about you, again. Yeah! was thinkin' about you, again ….

Classic 👍🌹 💖....

I john cougar Mellencamp dancing

Classic song and music video

There used to be an upper midwest band called Rode hard and put up wet that used to do this song in the local bars. Good memories.

Cool song

My mood was down today, Untill I heard this oen

Great music holding hands means something....... Say yeah yeah yeah

I love this man!!!!!!!!!! 😎

My husband beat your kid up Cougar. He was an ass.

the woman playing the fiddle is so hot.

61 and still can't help moving everytime i hear this!! I love johns smile, so natural!

DIVERSITY - no child left white.

Back when music had a story. Awww bring it back. Live JCM for life. Never gets old.

YouTube brings the music back , Rock on.

Brilliantly done!

Great song!

My favorite by him.

Mark H

My Favorite song of John's too. ♥️
"Our Hearts Were Really Pumpin". ♥️🎼

Why couldnt he have a guy in a wheelchair dancing?

Real talent love it ... Did it his way ...always and still does a real musicans. ...

Just as the racially mixed couple in the video (once utterly verboten in American society), so will the Shi'ite and Sunni forces SOON, VERY SOON, be together...

"That's when a SPOKE WAS A SPOKE AND MOVING WAS GROOVING...the wintry days would last forever but weekends would..."

I love how they shovel racemixing down your throat.

Refer madness 🤣🤣

Good luck

back when a toke was a toke ...

My favorite Mellancamp song ever! Makes you realize you need to enjoy the little things and make memories. Don't spend your life working. Enjoy life while you have it ❤

Mellencamp looks like Eddie the werewolf in The Howling.

This + Ain't Even Done With the Night, are my favourite songs of John's.

Couple of good choices!

I agree!

I love this song !!

"We were young and we were improving"🤘🤘

Back in the good old days. Kids had fun without drugs. Now all these kids are on dope.

John is dancing the "Boogaloo".
S E X Y. ♥️💋

James Brown doing the Boogaloo. 🔽

https://youtu.be/E8Heyz27IX8

John's Great Grandfather came over from Germany and he married a black woman. ♥️🙏

mdma in a song

This song is so Awesome, it captures how we lived back then.
John is So Very handsome, his smile, and his hair is gorgeous.

"Our Hearts Were Really Pumping". ♥️♥️♥️♥️

And a short time later, the woman dancing with the brotha was a single mother.

PaintHerWhite

Not nice.
The US gov broke up the family.

2.5 K people are idiots !

Kinda song that makes ya smile thinking of those good 80s days..so much simpler days...

Heard this song at the SMOKING TUNA in Key west recently. It was outstanding.

WAY TO RECOGNIZE PJ

Brings back great memories,were I was,who I was with,what we were doing,love it back then love it now

Johns got that soul in his veins ...

Joseph Walsh

He sure does. 🎼🎸♥️

I'll sit through any boring ad just to listen to something much better such as this.

Laughing with our friends

love it. accordion. all good

Oh the flack he must have gotten on having a black guy and white girl dancing in the video..lol..don't bar an eye now..but back then...love it..great song..great memories..but i still call him john melloncougarcamp..

John has always had love for all races. He wrote Jack and Diane based on a interracial couple in which the guy was black and the woman was white, but he faced pressure from the record company to change the song. I'm glad he stayed determined and got the video of Cherry Bomb to have an interracial dancing couple. John is a rock'n'roll superstar, up there with Bruce Springsteen, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Neil Young, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Petty, David Crosby, Billy Joel, Jackson Browne, Bob Seger, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Linda Ronstadt and all the other musical superstars of that generation. I'll always cherish their music.

@Tommy Vilanch i love that his rebel attitude has stayed intact..he's a rare breed..sticks by what he believes in no matter what others think

Karen Menard

John's great grandfather came over from Germany, and he married a black woman. ♥️

@Tommy Vilanch Damn, I didn't know Jack and Diane was based on an interracial couple. Need to revisit that song.

Cherry bomb” excellent song! Especially about a car part. Cherry bombs.i believe they were the heads on the engine.

This song is everything

The world sucks now I miss the 80's.

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I could watch john dance all day long wow!!

Susan Koshney

Me too. ♥️
S E X Y 💋

Good song

One night with my big mouth some guy had to put me in my place, I can relate!

A classic! Never gets old. #Great Music!

Those dance moves are the bomb...

Mrs J 02

They sure are. ♥️💋
The dance is the Boogaloo.
James Brown.

This is one of my favorite songs of all time! I love music all kinds from classical and thereafter! Every time I hear this song I just want to get up and dance and it makes me so happy every single time! No song has ever done that to me except for this song!!!!

Win Rosie

I dance around the house to this song, I play it over and over. ♥️

@Chesapeake Bay you too!? Let's play now and Let's dance!!!

Love cherry bomb

1987, I was 23 years old full of piss and vinegar, now I'm 55 and counting. I miss my youth.

Great musician long live the cougar

What do you call that move at around 1:40? It’s like he’s hefting a baseball bat. I am not making fun of his moves, I think JCM is a great dancer in his own unique way.

Adam

He is doing the Boogaloo dance. ♥️

Music is colorless good is good

Haha I like this song

Where does the time go ?

He looks like Pauly Shore dancing in this video.

Thangs have changed. Now it's a circus

MB Canada here!
This tune instantly became one of my all time favorites the first time I heard it. That never changed. Its a timeless song that exemplifies a period of Classic Americana somehow.
Velox Versutus Vigilans

Whenever I hears this song, I gets up and starts dancing....and I ain't gots no legs!

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until the day I hit the grave I will continue to listen sing and dance to good old American bands. They made music over decades that to this day is better than the nosie pollution they now call music.

Linda from Wetmor City Limits in San Antonio Texas used to wait on me and my brother, we always pitched in for the jukeboxk she always played this. Get down Linda......Ray and Tony

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I'm 35 and wow! Where did the time go?!?this was my jutebox song when I was 24 and went to bars!! Good times;) thanks John

I love this song!

You might want to fix the closed captioning on this (and all) your videos.

I’m 63 and still dance like I’m 20,,,,this is da bomb to have fun to ! So many’s gone by and still going ! GOD IS GREAT !

I love, love, love this song!

Im a Black man and i approve of this awesome Artist cougar always had a nice sound that broke thru racial barriers.

Bully Times- I'm African American, as well; this is still one of my all time favorite songs. I throw it right in the midst of any R&B dusties, rock, or country mix list.

Jack and diane was originally written about an interracial couple but the record company made him change it to football star

Yeah man. I never knew but went to the rock and roll hall of fame and they told his story there. apparently the idea of the mixed couple dancing to his song came to mind and he told the studio. They told him they wouldnt let him - as a country star - have that music video. He said if they wouldnt let him have his music video, he woudlnt let them release his album. It all got released :) Real good dude, and real good music.

AMEN TO U BILLY. WHITE BOYS USUALLY HAVE NO SOUL BUT THIS IS AN EXCEPTION. FROM THE DELLPHONICS TO ALL THE GREAT SOUL MUSIC THAT WE ALL LUV

ATTA BOY BILLY. I'M A WHITE CHAPPIE. U BOYS BRING ALL THE SOUL TO MUSIC. KEEP IT COMING BABY BOY!

One of the best song ever written!!

Great song......stupid ass video.......HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SONG LYRICS AT ALL..

Mick Donnell

Opinions are 💩.

cool song

This song always reminds me of my Dad.. the 1st time I stayed with him for the weekend I got dropped off by my mum and uncle.. this song was on the radio. My dad's been gone for 21 years now but can still remember that day when I hear this song like it was yesterday. ❤❤❤

Damn ads

Connie Doyle

Rewind it before it gets to the end.
You can listen to it over and over with no ads, just the first ad before the video. ♥️

17 has turned 35...and I was ...
Now 62..dam where has the time gone...but still love this song and had to hear it tonight ...

I first heard John Cougar in early 1980 fell in love with this guy. He's a real gift ya'll. Read his story... fist EVER survivor of spinabifida surgery. It's something he never talked about...... on YouTube

Terrific autobiographical song. The video is a blast. that part with the knuckleheads in High School at the dance was great. The cheerleaders at the end were terrific too. Loved how they did their routine in sync with their routine. Music in his songs is always the best and the words really have a heartfelt message.

Ol boy can dance!

Jeff Albillar

Yes, the Boogaloo. ♥️💋

I have always loved this song and Mr. Mellencamp certainly has some smooth dance moves❣💃🎶🎵💃

Victoria G

Yes, he is dancing the Boogaloo. ♥️💋

@Chesapeake Bay indeed!

love this one.

I finally know the name of this song. That's when a smoke was a smoke. And groovin was groovin

Smoke was a smoke or sport was a sport? I see it different ways in different lyrics sources.

Smoke was a smoke seems to make more sense (smoking was a cigarette, not marijuana) but who knows? Refrain 1 sounds like sport and the others sound lime smoke. I'm baffled.

@Cornelius McGillicuddy that's when a smoke was a smoke....
And groovin was groovin.

Jeff Albillar

The lyrics say "sport" but I sing "smoke". ♥️

@Chesapeake Bay I just googled it & wow. I just learned something else about this song. Thank you, Deary

Trump 2020!!

thumbs up for Kenny Aronoff as well on this one!

sweet  but i can name song and artists from the 50s up and sing song word for word from all music groups except rapp /punk style

This is the best of the 80's!