Green River - Creedence Clearwater Revival
Song Lyrics / Chart History / Artist Information

• Written by John Fogerty & originally performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival (John Fogerty, Tom Fogerty, Stu Cook, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford
• The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 1993
• The song was the 4th Top 40 hit for CCR, reaching #2 on the charts in 1969
• From an interview with Tom Fogerty - "Green River" is really about this place where I used to go as a kid on Putah Creek, near Winters, California. I went there with my family every year until I was ten. Lot of happy memories there. I learned how to swim there. There was a rope hanging from the tree. Certainly dragonflies, bullfrogs. There was a little cabin we would stay in owned by a descendant of Buffalo Bill Cody. That's the reference in the song to Cody Jr. The actual specific reference, "Green River," I got from a soda pop-syrup label. You used to be able to go into a soda fountain, and they had these bottles of flavored syrup. My flavor was called Green River. It was green, lime flavored, and they would empty some out over some ice and pour some of that soda water on it, and you had yourself a Green River.
• "Flat Car Riders" & "Cross Tie Walkers" are hobos who used to ride the rails.

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• Susie Q
• Up Around The Bend
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