Lines of
Inspiration
Melodious expressions, Enduring Truisms
F
John
Fogerty
“Rode in on a
Greyhound, I’ll be walking out if I go…”
Song
Title: Lodi
Songwriter:
John Fogerty
The
Band:
Creedence
Clearwater Revival
This four member band out of San Francisco blazed themselves
a notable trail through the Roots – or Swamp – rock genre.
At the impressionable age of 11, when ‘Lodi’ turned up on
the flipside of “Bad Moon Rising”, I interpreted the song title ‘Lodi’ as a
state of mind; “Oh Lord, stuck in Lodi
again,” Apparently I wasn’t far off the mark, since Fogerty says his
inspiration for the song was a downtrodden elderly man he’d seen on a street
corner (before ever setting foot in the town Fogerty simply liked the name of). “At
the beginning of a good career,” Fogerty went on, “I was hoping that wouldn’t
happen to me.”
With that, I offer a piece of a 17th century
phrase my grandma wrote on one of the back pages of my teenage journal:
“Remember me as you pass by,
as you are now
so once was I”
And just to get your toes tapping: Traveling
Band
So, how about those lines? Do they call to mind a memory?
Instill a sense of wonder? Are you familiar with the song, phrase or band?
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