Yesterday, Roger posted this song in a comment on Annie’s post, and I immediately thought, “WHOA … a CCR song that I haven’t ever played before!”  For once, I was right … I haven’t played this one before.  Let me just correct that oversight now …

According to SongFacts …

This song was written by group leader John Fogerty, who explained in his Storytellers special: “Green River is really about this place where I used to go as a kid on Putah Creek, near Winters, California. I went there with my family every year until I was ten. Lot of happy memories there. I learned how to swim there. There was a rope hanging from the tree. Certainly dragonflies, bullfrogs. There was a little cabin we would stay in owned by a descendant of Buffalo Bill Cody. That’s the reference in the song to Cody Jr. [“Up at Cody’s…