Why’s Mary proud? This isn’t exactly a moral question. All he saw was a poster and smelled a rat. I’ll admit I’m jealous of the economy of Mr. Far from a story about killing people for money.” It was obviously a metaphor about leaving painful, stressful things behind for a more tranquil and meaningful life. Perhaps, the setting was ‘back in time’ on the Mississippi River.
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“The movie poster has my lyrics changed to read ‘killing’ for the Man every night and day.” (One poster really does say this, which is strange since the person playing “the Man” is Danny Glover.)Īnyway, he went on: “I wrote the song about a mythical riverboat, cruising on a mythical river, in a mythical time. “No one ever asked me about using my song this way, or even about the meaning of Proud Mary,” his post said. Fogerty wrote - probably the best-known song about anybody named Mary. Henson as a hit woman in Boston, shares its title with the 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival hit that Mr. Henson shoot-em-up using the name of the song he wrote? Indeed, “Proud Mary,” which stars Ms. Last week, John Fogerty fired up Facebook and made a complaint.