Episode 118: Creedence Clearwater Revival Fortunate Son year 1969 English Version.
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00:01:52 - Credence Clearwater Revival was an American rock band, popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
00:02:17 - Considered one of the greatest bands in history and one of the most popular and influential.
00:02:22 - His rock approach contains blues, country and pop essences, achieving an attractive musical mix that made credences sound so characteristic.
00:02:31 - The band consisted of lead singer, guitarist John Fogarty, his older brother Tom Fogarty, who played rhythm guitar, bassist Stu Cook, and drummer Doug Clifford.
00:02:42 - Featuring a simple yet iconic guitar lick and typical Fogarty-searing vocals.
fortunate son, had a simple three verse structure and no chorus or actual guitar solo.00:02:55 - It was memorable mainly for that repeated hook, which banged into listeners' heads, on its way to becoming part of our social consciousness.
00:03:04 - Fogarty said that he quickly came up with the idea for the song.
00:03:08 - This is an anti-system song of defiance and worker pride, a class that was the basis of the great revolutions, against the Washington government of that time, as well as against the Vietnam War, which at that time had catastrophic effects on the population.
00:03:23 - American, placing ourselves in the context of the time, year 1969, the war had reached its bloody peak. Nixon was secretly bombing Cambodia. More than 11,000 Americans were killed in Vietnam that year. Most of the recruits were from working class or poor backgrounds,
00:03:40 - A disproportionately high number of them were black.
00:03:47 - John Fogarty and Doug Clifford enlisted in the Army Reserves in 1966 to avoid being drafted and sent to Vietnam and were discharged in 1968 after fulfilling their military commitments.
00:03:59 - The song is more about class injustice than the war itself, Fogarty said.
00:04:03 - It's the old saying that the rich make war and the poor have to fight it.
00:04:08 - The US soldiers in the Vietnam War came from the working class, and they were there because they had no political influence that could remove them, and avoid being massacred in the conflict.
00:04:19 - The song is sung from the perspective of one of these men, who ends up fighting because he is not a son of a senator or a deputy, or a fortunate son.
00:04:29 - This is one of the first protest songs by a rock band, pointing out that it is the poor who are more likely to fight in wars than the upper class youth.
00:04:39 - Den Daisy's the band currently formed by David Lowey, Doug Aldrich, Glenn Hughes and
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00:06:03 - Some folks are born made to wave the flag
00:06:08 - Who the red, white and blue
00:06:11 - And when the band plays Hail to the Chief
00:06:15 - Who will that point the cannon at you now?
00:06:18 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:06:23 - I ain't no senator's son
00:06:26 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:06:30 - I ain't no watcher, they're wrong
00:06:33 - Some folks are born silver spoon and hand
00:06:37 - Lord, don't they help themselves down?
00:06:40 - But when the taxman comes through the door
00:06:44 - Lord, the house looks like a rummage saying
00:06:48 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:06:51 - I ain't no millionaire son
00:06:55 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:06:59 - I ain't no fortunate one, no
00:07:17 - The folks in here start fangirling
00:07:20 - Who will send you down to war, no
00:07:24 - And when you ask them how much should we give
00:07:28 - Who's on the answer board?
00:07:30 - More, more, more, more, yeah
00:07:32 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:07:35 - I ain't no military, it's all, all, all
00:07:39 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:07:42 - I ain't no fortunate one
00:07:46 - It ain't me, it ain't me
00:07:49 - I ain't no fortunate one
00:07:52 - No, no, no, no
00:07:53 - It ain't me, it ain't me