John Fogerty

There was times I was, boy, you've opened a can of worms here.

Because I was so invested in being a Catholic, even though my parents tried to have me go to parochial school, Catholic school.

I was in the first grade, and then I want to say they kicked me out.

And then my mom had me start again in ninth grade at St.

Mary's High School, and they kicked me out again.

But it wasn't my fault.

Anyway, the one that happened is funny.

I mean, it's just...

The one that happened in the first grade, I had to take a bus to get there.

I lived in El Cerrito and it was the School of the Madeline in Berkeley.

And I'm in the first grade, I'm six years old.

So you had to go to the bus stop, get on a bus, get a transfer so that then when the bus came to a certain stop over in Albany, you then got on a train and

transferred, in other words, got on the train, and that went another mile or so into Berkeley, and at a certain stop right behind the school, the school of the Madeleine, Catholic school, you get off the train and go on down into school.

Now, what happened...

My parents had split up, so it was only my mom in the house.

And she's leaving early because she's got a job as a teacher.

So she's out of the house before me.

And so it's up to me to get myself together and get to the bus stop on time.

Many, many times I was late.

I missed it.