Run through the jungle vietnam
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“There’s got to be some sort of lid on this thing.”įogerty also wrote about the song in his 2015 autobiography, Fortunate Son: My Life, My Music, echoing much of what he told Rather and saying he was a hunter that favored gun control. “You don’t take a machine gun to go deer hunting,” he said. It bothered him how people would use the Second Amendment to claim that they should own machine guns. He added that he’s become more concerned about who owns guns in the years that followed. I just thought it was disturbing that it was such a jungle for our citizens just to walk around in our own country at least having to be aware that there are so many private guns owned by some responsible and maybe many irresponsible people.” So somewhere in the song, I think I said, ‘200 million guns are loaded.’ Not that anyone else has the answer, I did not have the answer to the question.
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“We’re talking about privately held guns. “I remember reading around that time that there was one gun for every man, woman and child in America, which I found staggering,” he said. When we sometimes think we have a handle on why this person did something, then another one comes along that’s a complete departure.”įogerty also revealed the statistic that, years after that event, inspired some of the song’s lyrics. “One is just as wacky or crazy as the other. “On through the years, of course, we’ve seen more and more of this sort of event,” the singer continued. “I think my first experience as a kid was hearing about the fellow that climbed up in the Texas tower and was able to kill several people on the campus.” Rather clarified that former Marine Charles Whitman had ascended a tower at the University of Texas and killed 16 people and wounded 32 others in 1966. “The thing I wanted to talk about was gun control and the proliferation of guns,” Fogerty said. In a new interview with Dan Rather airing Tuesday on the newmsan’s AXS show The Big Interview, the singer cleared up the myth that the “jungle” in question in the 1970 song was Vietnam.
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John Fogerty has clarified the meaning behind one of Creedence Clearwater Revival‘s biggest hits: “Run Through the Jungle” was a statement about gun control.