Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)

"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"
Single by Red Box
from the album The Circle & the Square
B-side"Stinging Bee"
Released1985
GenreNew wave, synthpop
Length4:32, 6:42
LabelSire Records
Songwriter(s)Simon Toulson-Clarke
Red Box singles chronology
"Saskatchewan"
(1984)
"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)"
(1985)
"For America"
(1986)

"Lean on Me (Ah-Li-Ayo)" is a song by British group Red Box, released in 1985 as the third single from the debut album The Circle & the Square. It was the band's highest-charting single, reaching No. 3 in the UK in October 1985.

The song borrows from North American Indian rhythms.