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“Great Balls of Fire” is a 1957 song recorded by Jerry Lee Lewis on Sun Records
and featured in the 1957 movie Jamboree. It was written by Otis Blackwell
(under the pseudonym Jack Hammer). The Jerry Lee Lewis 1957 recording was ranked
as the 96th greatest song ever by Rolling Stone. The song sold one million copies
in its first 10 days of release in the United States and would go on to sell over 5 million copies,
making it both one of the best-selling singles in the United States
as well as one of the world’s best-selling singles of all time.

Great balls of fire

You shake my nerves and you rattle my brain
Too much love drives a man insane
You broke my will, oh what a thrill
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

[band joins]

I learned to love all of Hollywood money
You came along and you moved me honey
I changed my mind, looking fine
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

You kissed me baba, woo…..it feels good
Hold me baba, learn to let me love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I’m a nervous world that your mine mine mine mine-ine

I cut my nails and I quiver my thumb
I’m really nervous but it sure is fun
Come on baba, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

[piano solo]

Well kiss me baba, woo-oooooo….it feels good
Hold me baba
I want to love you like a lover should
Your fine, so kind
I got this world that your mine mine mine mine-ine

I cut my nails and I quiver my thumb
I’m real nervous ’cause it sure is fun
Come on baba, you drive me crazy
Goodness gracious great balls of fire

[guitar solo]

[piano solo]

[guitar and piano jam]

I say goodness gracious great balls of fire…oooh..