Other music I have on my MP3 player is from two groups, named Time Machine and Sunday, working together. Here is one I like but which doesn’t make me ride faster.

I was riding with my regular partner one day when Bad Moon Rising started playing. “Did you ever listen closely to the lyrics and know the story behind them?” I asked innocently.

Of course, she said she hadn’t.

“Well,” I explained, “The CCR band was headed through Louisiana between gigs when one of the guys said he needed to answer an urgent call of nature. The bathroom on the bus was broken, so the only thing they could do was pull off on the side of the road.

“The flow had just started, so to speak, when flashing lights lit up the scene and a siren started blaring. The next thing they knew, the errant band member was being arrested for indecent exposure and a whole raft of bad things.

To commemorate the event, they wrote this song. Listen to where they say, ‘Dont go around tonight,
Well, it’s bound to take your life,
There’s a bathroom on the right.
I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear river’s overflowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.’

“Makes perfect sense when your know the whole story, doesn’t it?”

It gave me great pleasure to hear her explaining the lyrics to another person on a later ride.

So, if you hear the REAL story about CCR and The Bathroom on the Right, you’ll know who started it.