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Song · 1969 · Roots rock

Born on the Bayou

Creedence Clearwater Revival
1969
★ 6.8 editorial score

Fogerty wrote it in a California apartment, never having set foot in Louisiana, and still summoned the swamp.

From the album
Bayou Country
Genre
Roots rockSwamp rockRock
Subject
The American SouthChildhoodNostalgia

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