Rough Boy

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“Rough Boy”
Single by ZZ Top
from the album Afterburner
Released 1986
Format 7"
Recorded 1986
Genre Rock
Length 3:32
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s) Billy Gibbons
Dusty Hill
Frank Beard
Producer Bill Ham
ZZ Top singles chronology
"Delirious"
(1985)
"Rough Boy"
(1985)
"My Head's in Mississippi"
(1986)

"Rough Boy" was a single for the American rock band ZZ Top in 1986 from their album Afterburner. The song reached #5 on the Mainstream Rock charts and #23 in the UK Top 40. Some have noted similarities between the opening guitar riff and Zelda's Lullaby from the video game A Link to the Past.