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It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no senator’s son, son.It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no millionaire’s son, no, no.It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no military son, son, oh no.It ain’t me, it ain’t me, I ain’t no fortunate one, no no no,With the exception of music and lyrics, content on this page is © Alpha History 2018. Written by John Fogerty and performed by Fogerty’s band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fortunate Son takes aim at the United States’ political and military elite, the men who push for war but are seldom personally affected by it. According to Fogerty, Fortunate Son was inspired by the marriage of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s grandson to Richard … But the music he made with Creedence Clearwater Revival has soundtracked visions of the Vietnam War … So this was all boiling inside of me and I sat down on the edge of my bed and out came "It ain't me, it ain't me, I ain't no senator's son!" The song reached number 14 on the United States charts on November 22, 1969, the week before The song, released during the peak period of the U.S. involvement in the The thoughts behind this song - it was a lot of anger. It contains 184,073 words in 261 pages and was updated last on June 11th. The song was also used during the E3 announcement trailer for Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam and is also the main menu song for the game and plays mid-game in vehicle radios. Content created by Alpha History may not be copied, republished or redistributed without our express permission. Fortunate Son with Helicopter sound and machine gun - YouTube So my position got stated very well in the newspaper, and lo and behold, Wrangler to their credit said, "Wow, even though we made our agreement with the publisher, the owner of the song, we can see now that John Fogerty really hates the idea", so they stopped doing it. And I said I'm very much against my song being used to sell pants. John Fogerty claims he wrote “Fortunate Son” in just 20 minutes. Julie Nixon was dating David Eisenhower. You'd hear about the son of this senator or that congressman who was given a deferment from the military or a choice position The song has been widely used to protest military actions as well as elitism in a broader sense in Western society, particularly in the United States; as an added consequence of its popularity, it has even been used in completely unrelated situations, such as to advertise The song has since been recorded or performed by many artists. The song is used in the introduction sequence of the game Battlefield Vietnam where it is among a list of in-game playable tracks. You know, it took about 20 minutes to write the song.According to his 2015 memoir, Fogerty was thinking about "Fortunate Son" wasn't really inspired by any one event. So it was the Vietnam War going on... Now I was drafted and they're making me fight, and no one has actually defined why.

For more information please refer to our This Vietnam War website is created and maintained by Alpha History. Fortunate Son (1969) is one of the Vietnam era’s best-known protest songs. Please reorganize this content to explain the subject's impact on popular culture, The Voice (US), Season 9 Episode 7.

The song is used in the introduction sequence of the game The song is briefly played as both its original recording and a solo a cappella rendition, sung by Jessy Carolina, in In 2015, the song was included in the enhanced re-release of The song was used during a mission to destroy rigged voting machines in In 2012 this song was used for the end credits of Peter Berg's film In 2016, this song was included in the soundtrack album for the film Yes, the people that owned Fantasy Records also owned all my early songs, and they would do all kinds of stuff I really hated in a commercial way with my songs. ... Then one day somebody from the L.A. Times actually bothered to call me up and ask me how I felt, and I finally had a chance to talk about it. Originally aired October 12, 2015.