John Fogerty

And they all said that.

The state of Vermont would like to nominate her favorite son.

And so I had written that one down in my book.

And I thought I was going to write kind of a political song.

So the band was getting pretty solid in the backing track.

And that told me, you know, I was driving a career.

wasn't someone else telling me i was the one deciding and pushing and i think pushing pretty hard i just i wanted a new single to be ready and this seemed like it might be it so i at one point after the band had been rehearsing the music for that song fortunate son uh for a few weeks it was getting pretty good all right i gotta write the words i gotta

get the whole song together.

I took a little yellow tablet like that, went in my bedroom, sat on the bed,

And instead of what I thought it was going to be, the first thing I said, this idea of the red, white, and blue, and they're always super patriots, you know, all this stuff, bluster and all that, blah, blah, blah, right?

And I said, how do I get that?

How do I get that?

Well, they're waving the flag.

Yeah, but what's going on now?

They're pointing the cannon at you, right?

yeah but it ain't me and I realized oh wow that's something I can repeat it ain't me I ain't no you know and literally I mean I just sort of did it in front of you almost the way it played out of me sitting on that bed literally walked in and 20 minutes later walked out with the whole song coming from I didn't have anything other than favorite son

The rest was just the stuff that was boiling in my head at the time, of course, basically because

well-heeled people getting out of the draft, which kind of pissed me off.

You know, there were a lot of guys, now that I was in them or had been in the military, and I knew there were a lot of other guys felt just like me.

It wasn't like I didn't grow up that I wanted to be a soldier and go do that.