We live in AZ and so we would always listen to his favorite bands on the way to Flagstaff, maybe Sedona or Williams or Payson, wherever he chose to go camping that weekend. He LOVES CCR and Allman Brothers and, you know, the whole 9. This reminds me of my dad and all the times we went camping, just me and him. Just a different take, and considering that the lyrics are ambiguous, we both get to be right "I wish I was back in the bayou, rollin."Īgain, looking back to an easier time, possibly he's moved away and falling into the trap his father warned him about "My papa said son don't let the man get you and do what he done to me"Ī warning from his father not to fall into a dead end future working just to survive I spent most of my childhood summers running through those woods and swamps with nothing but swimming shorts on I grew up with a river in the front yard and km's of swamp and forest in the back. Nostalgia for his easy going / carefree childhood years. I can still here my old hound barking, chasing down a hoodoo there." "I can remember the 4th of July, running through the backwoods bare.
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My perceptions of the same lines you called out I've always thought of it as a nostalgic look back to a simpler childhood, but with a purposely open current setting so that the listener can relate in their own way. Clearly Fogerty had a love affair with the mythology of Louisiana, but I don't think it makes his music less worthwhile.
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A lot of rock and roll from that era borrowed culturally and musically from the (mostly black) south. I was getting some of that imagery from Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters.". "Chasing down a hoodoo." Hoodoo is a magical, mystical, spiritual, non-defined apparition, like a ghost or a shadow, not necessarily evil, but certainly other-worldly. Tiny apartments have wonderful bare walls, especially when you can't afford to put anything on them. I was trying to be a pure writer, no guitar in hand, visualizing and looking at the bare walls of my apartment. I put it in the swamp where, of course, I had never lived.
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