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In a 1969 interview, John Fogerty said that he wrote it in the two days after he was discharged from the National Guard. [10] In the liner notes for the 2008 expanded reissue of the Creedence Clearwater Revival album Bayou Country, Joel Selvin explained that the songs for the album started when Fogerty was in the National Guard, that the riffs for "Proud Mary", "Born on the Bayou", and "Keep ...
Away you rolling river. He winked his eye, and he tipped his flipper. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. He sold the chief that fire-water, Away you rolling river. And 'cross the river he stole his daughter. Ah-ha, I'm bound away, 'Cross the wide Missouri. "O, Shenandoah, I long to hear you, Away you rolling river. Across that ...
"Roll On, Columbia, Roll On" was part of the Columbia River Ballads, a set of twenty-six songs written by Guthrie as part of a commission by the Bonneville Power Administration (BPA), the federal agency created to sell and distribute power from the river's federal hydroelectric facilities (primarily Bonneville Dam and Grand Coulee Dam).
[citation needed] Following on the local success of "Rollin'" and the understated ballad "Lady, Play Your Symphony," "Lena Lookie" went to number six, and the group embarked on three New Zealand tours over the next two years. [citation needed] A documentary of their first trip, in late 1973, was aired as a 1975 TV special, Rollin Through New ...
"River of Love" is a moderate up-tempo, with steel-string acoustic guitar and pedal steel guitar accompaniment. Shawn Camp, Billy Burnette and Dennis Morgan, who wrote the song, all sing backing vocals on it as well. [1] The lyrics use a river as a metaphor for love ("Let's go rollin' on the river of love").
The album consists of a series of tracks based on recently uncovered lyrics handwritten by Bob Dylan in 1967; these are believed to have been written in the period between his motorcycle accident (July 29, 1966) and the first recordings in the spring of 1967 in the "Red Room" in Dylan's house, where the first recordings of The Basement Tapes ...
"Ol' Man River" is a show tune from the 1927 [5] musical Show Boat with music by Jerome Kern and lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein II, who wrote the song in 1925. The song contrasts the struggles and hardships of African Americans with the endless, uncaring flow of the Mississippi River .
The tune known as "Roll, Jordan, Roll" may have its origins in the hymn "There is a Land of Pure Delight" written by Isaac Watts [1] in the 18th century. It was introduced to the United States by the early 19th century, in states such as Kentucky and Virginia, as part of the Second Great Awakening, and often sung at camp meetings.