This song is great! There is so much going on in it. While i'm not entirely sure what Fogerty was writing about specifically, I love this song because you can relate it to many different aspects of our world. For example, I think some of it has environmental undertones: "Who'll take the coal from the mines" to me means that although we criticize big coal for strip-mining and AMD, we still consume electricity.
Also, I just heard a lecture today on how the US and other countries will never intervene in Darfur because it's not in anyone's national interest and it made me think of this song. We admit that it's a tragedy, but not even the UN will the appropriate actions. This course can rationalized, but when asked who'll stop the genocide, we say "Don't look now, it ain't you or me."
This song is great! There is so much going on in it. While i'm not entirely sure what Fogerty was writing about specifically, I love this song because you can relate it to many different aspects of our world. For example, I think some of it has environmental undertones: "Who'll take the coal from the mines" to me means that although we criticize big coal for strip-mining and AMD, we still consume electricity. Also, I just heard a lecture today on how the US and other countries will never intervene in Darfur because it's not in anyone's national interest and it made me think of this song. We admit that it's a tragedy, but not even the UN will the appropriate actions. This course can rationalized, but when asked who'll stop the genocide, we say "Don't look now, it ain't you or me."