 Genius Meanings
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – I Put a Spell on You (Live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair / 1969)
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[Verse 1] / I put a spell on you because you're mine / You better stop the things that you're doing / I said, watch out, I ain't lying / Yeah, I ain't gonna take none of your
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Screamin' Jay Hawkins – I Put a Spell on You
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Hawkins would often introduce this song by coming out in a flaming coffin with a skull named ‘Henry’. Famous disk jockey Alan “Moondog” Freed, an early promoter of Rock ‘n’ Roll
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The Animals – I Put a Spell on You
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I put a spell on you, because you're mine / You'd better stop the things that you do / I ain't lyin', no I ain't lyin', yeah! / I just can't stand it, baby, for you're always
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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 – Born on the Bayou (Live at the Woodstock Music & Art Fair / 1969)
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[Intro] / Ladies and gentleman, to continue / Please warmly welcome with us / Creedence Clearwater Revival / [Verse 1] / A-when I was just a little boy / A-standin' to my Daddy's
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Gloomy
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[Verse] / Some people laugh in the dark / Some people cry alone / Some people talk without saying a thing / And everything turns out gloomy / Some people count your money / Someone
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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 – 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 – The Working Man
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[Verse 1] / Well, I was born on a sunday; on thursday I had me a job / I was born on a sunday; by thursday I was working out on the job / I ain't never had no day off since I
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Creedence Clearwater Revival – Before You Accuse Me
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This song is about his girlfriend leaving him, likely cheating on him. He can’t cope with her being gone.
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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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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 – 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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Rolling Stone – The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time
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Rolling Stone is one of the leading music magazines today, and their list of the 500 “Greatest Songs” of all time is considered by them to be “the definitive list”. It was
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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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John Fogerty – Travelin’ Band (Live)
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737 coming out of the sky / Oh, won't you take me down to Memphis / On a midnight ride? / I wanna move / Playing in a traveling band, yeah / Well, I'm flying 'cross the land
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LMP (La Musique Populaire) – Hits of '69
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[Intro] / Boogie up, boogie down / Shake your body to the groove / Sing it high, sing it low / Dancin', dancin', dancin' [?] / Boogie, boogie, boogie, boogie / Boogie boogie all
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Edison Lighthouse – Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)
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Written by Tony Macaulay and Barry Mason and released in 1970, ‘Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)’ is presumably about a female named Rosemary whom the protagonist is infatuated
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