John Fogerty
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
Eventually I arrive at this thing where I say, rolling, rolling.
Rolling, rolling on the river.
That's starting to be beyond me, out of me, right?
I look in my book because I said, what is this thing about?
The very first thing I had written in my little book of song titles was Proud Mary.
It's the actual first line, first thing.
I looked at that and I said,
wow, this is about, Proud Mary is a riverboat.
This is a boat named Proud Mary.
That's what we're doing here.
And I finished the song, right?
I mean, it was kind of Mark Twain, kind of Jimmy Stewart, Gary Cooper, you know, had a little bit of kind of gospel flavor and the old South in it.
When I got done, which was about an hour from when I'd opened my honorable discharge, I'm actually holding the little yellow tablet I'd been writing on.
I said, John, you've written the classic.
I realized that this song was...