Australian singles charts:
Green River entered the Kent music charts on 23 August 1969 and peaked at #6. The song was #68 on the Top 100 of 1969.
Album:
The song is on the album Green River.
Songwriter:
John Fogerty
Producer:
John Fogerty
Record label of Australian release:
Liberty
Songfacts:
John Fogerty explained in his Storytellers special: “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. [“Up at Cody’s camp I spent my days…”]
Read more: www.songfacts.com/facts/creedence-clearwater-revival/green-river
Lyrics:
Well, take me back down where cool water flows, y’all
Oh, let me remember things I love
Stoppin’ at the log where catfish bite
Walkin’ along the river road at night
Barefoot girls dancin’ in the moonlight
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This song is also on our Spotify playlist Bang a Gong – the 60s
Also on Bang a Gong from the Green River album:
Bad Moon Rising & Lodi
Other songs by CCR on Bang a Gong:
Down on the Corner
Have You Ever Seen the Rain
Hey Tonight
I Heard it Through the Grapevine
Lookin’ Out My Back Door
Proud Mary
Someday Never Comes
Travelin’ Band
Up Around the Bend
Who’ll Stop the Rain
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