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What’d I Say, Part 1Jerry Lee Lewis

Songwriter: Ray Charles

Producer: Siegfried E. Loch

All right, hey-hey
All right mama, all night

Tell your mama, tell your pa
I'm gonna send you back to Arkansas
All right, hey you don't do right
Don't do right, baby?
You just don't do your livin' right

Hey, see the girl with the diamond ring?
Good God, she knows how to shake that thing
Hey-hey
Hey, shake it girl
Shake that thing

Oh, look it at the woman with the diamond ring
Good God, she can shake it, she can shake it
Break a thing
All right

Woo-hey-hey
All right, whoa-ooh-ooh

What'd I say?
What'd I say?
What'd I say? Yeah
What'd I say?
What'd I say?
What'd I say?

I wanna know
Honey, I wanna know
I wanna know
Honey, I wanna know
I wanna know
I wanna know, now

Whoa!

Jerry Lee Lewis

Jerry Lee Lewis was a leading figure in the popularization of rock & roll during the 1950s. He was first signed to Sun Records in 1956 where he was labelmates with Johnny Cash, Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and other early rock artists. Of those musicians, however, he was the only piano player and combined with his heavy-handed playing style, sexually suggestive lyrics, and provocative stage antics he came to epitomize the rebelliousness of the genre.

He rose to international fame for his 1957 versions of the songs “Great Balls of Fire” and “Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On.”

Lewis' popularity rapidly tumbled, however, when in 1958, when at the age of 22, he married his 13-year-old cousin. Though this scandal continued to tarnish his image, Lewis never retired from music. As of October 2015, he continues to perform live.

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