"Fast car" is kind of a continuation of Bruce Springsteen's "Born to Run." It has all the clawing your way to a better life, but in this case the protagonist never makes it with her love; in fact she is dragged back down by him.
There is still an amazing amount of hope and will in the lyrics; and the lyrics themselve rank and easy five. If only music was stronger it would be one of those great radio songs that you hear once a week 20 years after it was released. The imagery is almost tear-jerking ("City lights lay out before us", "Speeds so fast felt like I was drunk"), and the idea of starting from nothing and just driving and working and denigrating yourself for a chance at being just above poverty, then losing in the end is just painful and inspiring at the same time.
(Alright, yeah, there you go)
(Yeah, hey, you sounded good to me)
(Sounded like)
(You've been listening close, haven't yeah)
(Yeah, here you go)
(Yeah)
Now when I was just a little boy
Standin' to my daddy's knee
My Poppa said, "Son, don't let the man getcha, do what he done to me
'Cause he'll get ya
Get ya now, now"
And I can remember the Fourth of July
Runnin' through the backwood bay
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Born on the Bayou
Born on the Bayou, alright
Born on the Bayou, do, do, do, do
Yeah, wish I was back on the Bayou
Rollin' with some Cajun Queen, Lord
Wishin' I were a fast freight train
Oh, just a-chooglin' on down to New Orleans
Born on the Bayou
Born on the Bayou, alright
Born on the Bayou
Do it, do it, do it, do it
And I can remember the Fourth of July
Runnin' through the backwood bay
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Born on the Bayou
Born on the Bayou, alright
Born on the Bayou
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Alright
(Wow, sounded like a bomb going off)
(Yeah, hey, you sounded good to me)
(Sounded like)
(You've been listening close, haven't yeah)
(Yeah, here you go)
(Yeah)
Now when I was just a little boy
Standin' to my daddy's knee
My Poppa said, "Son, don't let the man getcha, do what he done to me
'Cause he'll get ya
Get ya now, now"
And I can remember the Fourth of July
Runnin' through the backwood bay
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Born on the Bayou
Born on the Bayou, alright
Born on the Bayou, do, do, do, do
Yeah, wish I was back on the Bayou
Rollin' with some Cajun Queen, Lord
Wishin' I were a fast freight train
Oh, just a-chooglin' on down to New Orleans
Born on the Bayou
Born on the Bayou, alright
Born on the Bayou
Do it, do it, do it, do it
And I can remember the Fourth of July
Runnin' through the backwood bay
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin'
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Chasin' down a hoodoo there
Born on the Bayou
Born on the Bayou, alright
Born on the Bayou
Do it, do it, do it, do it
Alright
(Wow, sounded like a bomb going off)
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What's a hoodoo?
@Fully__Completely <br /> A "hoodoo" is a Cajun spook or evil spirit, usually inhabiting the Louisiana swamps
He's definitely saying "hoodoo there", not "hoodoo hare"
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Lynard Skynyrd is from Talahassee Florida, not Alabama.
I can see how people get confused easily on things like that.
Self-correction: The song is "Proud Mary" not "Rollin' On a River."
yeah, that's bogus. This song isn't about a BMX rider. "The man" probably refers to the government, or maybe his boss. Maybe his dad told him not to trade his hours for dollars, like he did.
A hoodoo is a practitioner of voodoo (this makes sense as there are were high racial tensions in the south, and most followers of voodoo/hoodoo were black), though it could also be used to describe a ghost/nothing.
Yeah, this songs excellent. Nicely toasted number to jam out for a rockin' 5 mins.
If you listen a live version it almost sounds like he is saying HooDoo Hare as in a rabbit. Which would make a lot more sense.
This is my favorite CCR song. Definitely about a childhood of some sort.