Edit 1b for headphones. Big July 1970 hit: #1 in Australia, Austria, Canada, Norway, US; #2 in Germany and South Africa; #3 in Sweden; #4 in Belgium and New Zealand. Holland was busy charting the previous CCR single, "Up Around The Bend", which was a #1 hit that month.
This song was not about drugs, it was partly written for John Fogerty's three years old son Josh. Fogerty said: "I knew he would love it if he heard me on the radio singing - doot doot doo, lookin' out my back door." In the song lyrics there is a reference to a parade passing by which John says was inspired by a Dr. Seuss book that he read as a kid titled "To Think (That) I Saw It On Mulberry Street."
Rhythm guitar player Tom Fogerty was the elder brother of John Fogerty. Before they formed CCR, Tom was lead singer in several bands. John took over the main role in CCR, and the lack of vocal and songwriting opportunity, along with festering, long-standing hostility with his brother led Tom to leave the band in early 1971, after finishing the sixth album, "Pendulum".
In the 1980s he underwent surgery for his back. An unscreened blood transfusion caused him to be infected with HIV. It led to his death, officially of tuberculosis, on September 6, 1990. After his death, a music compilation titled "The Very Best Of Tom Fogerty" was released.
LOOKIN' OUT MY BACK DOOR
(John Fogerty)
just got home from Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
got to sit down, take a rest on the porch
imagination sets in, pretty soon I'm singin'
doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
giant doin' cartwheels, statue wearin' high heels
look at all the happy creatures dancin' on the lawn
dinosaur Victrola list'nin' to Buck Owens
doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
tambourines and elephants are playin' in the band
won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon, doo, doo, doo
wond'rous apparition provided by magician
doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
tambourines and elephants are playin' in the band
won't you take a ride on the flyin' spoon, doo, doo, doo
bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrow
doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
forward troubles Illinois, lock the front door, oh boy!
look at all the happy creatures dancin' on the lawn
bother me tomorrow, today, I'll buy no sorrow
doo, doo, doo, lookin' out my back door
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