“Run Through The Jungle” #4 6/6/1970

In stark contrast to the other side of the single, one from CCR that’s decidedly downbeat. Everyone thought this was a Vietnam protest but John Fogerty later said it was about the proliferation of guns in America (“200 million guns are loaded...”) After Fogerty lost his publishing rights to Creedence’s material he was sued by Saul Zaentz, owner of CCR’s label Fantasy Records, who claimed John’s 1984 solo effort “The Old Man Down The Road” sounded too much like this song. So Zaentz basically said Fogerty was plagiarizing himself. The case was thrown out.