Bad Moon Rising (song)

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"Bad Moon Rising"

Song by Creedence Clearwater Revival
from the album Green River
Released	August 3, 1969
Recorded	1969
Genre	Rock
Length	2:36
Label	Fantasy
Writer(s)	John Fogerty
Producer(s)	John Fogerty, Saul Zaentz
Green River track listing
None (None)	"Bad Moon Rising" (1)	"Commotion" (2)

"Bad Moon Rising" is a 1969 song by Creedence Clearwater Revival. Written by John Fogerty it was the lead single from their album Green River. Their breakthrough hit, it reached #2 on the Billboard hot 100 singles chart and #1 on the UK singles chart for three weeks in September 1969.

The lyrics utilize images of apocalyptic weather conditions.

A common mondegreen of the last line is "There's a bathroom on the right". The correct line is "There's a bad moon on the rise". Fogerty himself has been known to occasionally substitute the "bathroom" version of the lyric as a joke during his live shows, including on his 1998 live album Premonition.

[edit] In pop culture

Inspired by the book, The Devil and Daniel Webster
It was one of many "moon"-titled songs (along with Van Morrison's "Moondance" and "Blue Moon") to feature on the soundtrack to An American Werewolf in London.
It was featured on the soundtrack of Sweet Home Alabama.
The season one finale of Supernatural featured the song playing on the radio of the characters' car just as a truck smashes into them.
Other artists, such as Social Distortion, Rasputina and The Reels have covered the song.
The song was sung by Homer Simpson in an episode of The Simpsons when Marge asked him to perform CPR.
An innovative version appears on an album (COMD2009 On The Rise) that was released in 1986 by the Scottish traditional music group, The Battlefield Band (the group has a tradition of ending their first set with one or another of Creedence Clearwater Revival's hit songs). The first half of track 6 is comprised of an instrumental version of John Fogerty's Bad Moon Rising presented in a unique fashion (their version is usually introduced to live audiences as "a surfing song from the Outer Hebrides"), whilst the second half of track 6 is comprised of "The Rising Moon Reel", written by their piper, Dougie Pincock, which is a stirring reel.
Sportscaster Chris Berman gave the nickname to former NFL receiver Andre Rison, "Andre 'Bad Moon' Rison".

Preceded by "In the Year 2525" by Zager & Evans	UK number one single September 16, 1969	Succeeded by "Je t'aime... moi non plus" by Jane Birkin & Serge Gainsbourg