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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Have You Ever Seen the Rain?
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“Have You Ever Seen the Rain” was released as a single in 1971 from the album Pendulum (1970) by roots rock group Creedence Clearwater Revival. The song charted highest in Canada
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Fortunate Son
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As one of the most famous protest songs of the Vietnam War era, “Fortunate Son” revives this timeless message with the snarl and swagger of the 1960s righteous rock and roll.
As
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bad Moon Rising
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Creedence Clearwater Revival have a sense of impending doom on their 1969 hit “Bad Moon Rising.” The song was the lead single from Creedence Clearwater Revival’s third studio album
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary
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CCR frontman John Fogerty explains the origins and recording of the hit, which would go on to be covered by Tina Turner, Solomon Burke and many others:
Back in the fall of 1967
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Suzie Q
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“Susie Q” is the third track of the album “Creedence Clearwater Revival”, published as debut album in 1968 by the homonym band.
“Susie Q” is a song published originally by the
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Green River
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This song is based on a vacation Fogerty took. In a 2012 Rolling Stone interview, Fogerty said:
What really happened is that I used a setting like New Orleans, but I would
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sinister Purpose
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[Verse 1] / When the sky is gray / And the moon is hate / I'll be down to get you / Roots of earth will shake / [Hook] / Sinister purpose / Knocking at your door / Come and take my
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Effigy
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“Effigy” is the closing track of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s fourth studio album, Willy and The Poorboys, recorded at Fantasy Studios in Berkeley, California, in 1969.
This
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Commotion
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John, who grew up as a country boy, doesn’t understand how people live in the cities. In his view, they are in a constant rush, talking nonsense all the time, frowning at things
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Molina
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[Chorus] / Molina, where are you goin' to? / Molina, where are you goin' to? / [Verse 1] / She's daughter to the mayor / Messin' with the sheriff / Drivin' in the blue car / She
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Tombstone Shadow
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[Chorus] / Tombstone shadow, stretching across my path / Tombstone shadow, stretching across my path / Every time I get some good news, Ooh / There's a shadow on my back / [Verse 1
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Wrote a Song for Everyone
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John Fogerty said he wrote this song about his (now) ex-wife about 2 years after they had a child together. Quote from John Fogerty: “Inspired by my young wife at the time. It was
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Good Golly, Miss Molly
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[Chorus] / Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball / Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball / When you're rocking and a-rolling / Can't hear your momma call / [Verse 1] / From
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Porterville
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[Verse 1] / It's been an awful long time since I been home / But you won't catch me going back down there alone / Things they said when I was young are quite enough to get me hung
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Feelin' Blue
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[Verse 1] / Hey, look over yonder out in the rain / Soaking wet fever in my brain / Now, I ain't certain which way to go / But I got to move, sure / [Chorus] / Feeling blue, blue
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Keep on Chooglin’
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[Chorus] / Keep on chooglin' / Keep on chooglin' / Keep on chooglin' / Chooglin', chooglin' / [Verse 1] / Maybe you don't understand it / But if you're a natural man / You got to
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Walk on the Water
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[Verse] / Late last night, I went for a walk / Down by the river near my home / Couldn't believe, with my own eyes / And I swear I'll never leave my home again / I saw a man
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Travelin' Band
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Drumming is very similar to Good Golly Miss Molly by Little Richard.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Born on the Bayou
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[Intro] / [Verse 1] / Now, when I was just a little boy / Standin' to my Daddy's knee / My papa said, "Son, don't let the man get you / An' do what he done to me." / Because he'll
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – The Midnight Special
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[Verse 1] / Well, you wake up in the mornin' / You hear the work bell ring / And they march you to the table / You see the same old thing / Ain't no food upon the table / And no
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Someday Never Comes
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This song is about the cyclical nature of abandonment. Just as the narrator’s father leaves him at an early age, the narrator ends up abandoning his own son while he is still young
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Heard It Through the Grapevine
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“I Heard It Through The Grapevine” is an extended cover of a song written by Norman Whitfield and Barrett Strong for Motown Records in 1966 and recorded by various artists under
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Run Through the Jungle
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Many interpret this song as a Vietnam War protest. In reality, Fogerty was writing about the growing American fascination with guns.
He said this about the song:
I was talking
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Long as I Can See the Light
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[Verse 1] / Put a candle in the window / But I feel I've got to move / Though I'm going, going, I'll be coming home soon / Long as I can see the light / [Verse 2] / Pack my bag and
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Don't Look Now (It Ain't You or Me)
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[Verse 1] / Who will take the coal from the mine? / Who will take the salt from the earth? / Who'll take a leaf and grow it to a tree? / Don't look now, it ain't you or me / Who
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Who'll Stop the Rain
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The song Craig Werner called the “best blues songs written about Vietnam”, “Who’ll Stop The Rain” is one of Creedence’s most popular and well-regarded songs. A rootsy folk rock
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Pagan Baby
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[Verse] / Pagan Baby, won't you walk with me? / Pagan Baby, Come on home with me / Pagan baby, Take me for a ride / Roll me, baby, Roll your big, brown eyes / Yeah! Ooh! Ooh
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Sweet Hitch-Hiker
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[Verse 1] / Was riding alongside the highway / Rolling up the countryside / Thinking I'm the devil's heat wave / What you burn in your crazy mind / Saw a slight distraction
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Get Down Woman
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[Verse] / Well, get down woman, before I have to go / Well, get down woman, before I have to go / You know, ya hurt me with your bad mouth / An' I just don't wanna know / Well
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lodi
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“Lodi” is the B-side of the popular CCR hit “Bad Moon Rising”. The song’s name comes from the city of Lodi – a small, agricultural based town in the northern part of California’s
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Bootleg
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[Chorus] / Bootleg, bootleg / Bootleg, howl / Bootleg, bootleg / Bootleg, howl / [Verse 1] / Take you a glass of water / Make it against the law / See how good the water tastes
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Penthouse Pauper
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[Verse] / Now, if I was a bricklayer / I wouldn't build just anything / And if I was a ball player / I wouldn't play no second string / And if I were some jewelry, baby / Lord, I'd
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – It Came Out of the Sky
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[Verse 1] / Woah, it came out of the sky, landed just a little south of Moline / Jody fell out of his tractor, couldn't believe what he seen / He laid on the ground and shook, a-
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – It’s Just a Thought
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[Verse 1] / It's just a thought / But I've noticed something strange / Getting harder to explain / All the years are passing by and by / Still I don't know / What makes it go / Who
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Call It Pretending
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[Verse 1] / What would you have me do? / Just turn and walk out on you / And leave you standing there, pretending I don't care? / When you know as well as I, that would lead
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Up Around the Bend
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Just another John Fogerty classic “city life will drive you loony so I’d rather be out in the boonies” themed song.
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Hey Tonight
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[Verse 1] / Hey, Tonight / Going to be tonight / Don't you know I'm flying / Tonight, tonight / Hey, come on / Going to chase tomorrow / Tonight, tonight / [Chorus] / Going to get
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Lookin' Out My Back Door
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John Fogerty’s ode to a situation many often find themselves in – having a circus appear in your backyard. Fogerty has admitted that he and the band largely eschewed drugs (outside
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Ninety-Nine and a Half (Won’t Do)
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[Verse 1] / I got to have all your love, night and day / Not just a little part, but all of your heart, sugar / [Chorus] / Ninety-nine and a half just won't do / Oh, no, no, just
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