{"id":114,"date":"2021-05-10T01:49:56","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T01:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=114"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:05:09","slug":"bad-moon-rising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/bad-moon-rising\/","title":{"rendered":"Bad Moon Rising"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">by John Fogarty &#8211; Key of A<\/span><\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea4886473955025537870' value='69ea4886473955025537870'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea4886473955025537870' value='Show More'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea4886473955025537870' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea4886473955025537870' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">Show More<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea4886473955025537870' ><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In Rolling Stone issue 649, John Fogerty explained that the lyrics were inspired by a movie called The Devil And Daniel Webster, in which a hurricane wipes out most of a town. This is where he got the idea for the words &#8220;I feel the hurricane blowin&#8217;, I hope you&#8217;re quite prepared to die.&#8221; Overall, he said the song is about the &#8220;apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us.&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This was used in two science-fiction movies of the 1980s: An American Werewolf In London (1981) and Twilight Zone: The Movie (1982). In the former, it plays as the main character is awaiting a full moon and wondering if he will turn into a werewolf.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">This contains a classic misheard lyric. The line &#8220;There&#8217;s a bad moon on the rise&#8221; is often heard as &#8220;There&#8217;s a bathroom on the right.&#8221; Not only do many people sing the wrong lyrics, but John Fogerty himself sang the &#8220;bathroom on the right&#8221; lyric once during the &#8220;Premonition&#8221; concert. It can be heard after the last verse of the song quite plainly.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 14pt\">In his memoir, Fogerty said he borrowed the guitar lick for this song from Scotty Moore&#8217;s work on Elvis Presley&#8217;s &#8220;I&#8217;m Left, You&#8217;re Right, She&#8217;s Gone.&#8221; Fogerty stresses that he wasn&#8217;t trying to hide that he&#8217;d borrowed the lick and was instead openly &#8220;honoring it.&#8221; In 1986, at an unspecified awards get-together, Moore grabbed Fogerty from behind and said, &#8220;Give me back my licks!&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/div>\n<pre><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>  Verse intro: C G F C  (repeat)<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-weight: 900;\"><span style=\"font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif;\"><span style=\"font-family: verdana, geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 16pt; font-weight: 900;\"><strong>[C] I see a [G] bad [F] moon a-rising [C]<\/strong> <strong>[C] I see [G] trouble [F] on the way [C]<\/strong>  <strong>[C] I see [G] earth-[F]-quakes and lightnin' [C]<\/strong>  <strong>[C] I see [G] bad [F] times today [C]<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>{ CHORUS } - - - - - [F] Don't go 'round tonight<\/strong><strong>.  <\/strong><strong>It's [C] bound to take your life.<\/strong>  <strong>[G] There's a [F] bad moon on the [C] rise<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n<strong>[ C G F C ]\u00a0 I hear hurricanes a-blowing.\u00a0 I know the end is coming soon.\u00a0 [ C G F C ]\u00a0\u00a0I fear rivers over flowing.\u00a0 I hear the voice of rage and ruin. <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/span> <\/strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>[ C G F C ]\u00a0 I hope you got your things together.\u00a0 I hope you are quite prepared to die.\u00a0 [ C G F C ]\u00a0\u00a0Look's like we're in for nasty weather.\u00a0 One eye is taken for an eye.<\/strong>\r\n\r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><strong>{ CHORUS } - - - - - \r\n\r\n<\/strong><strong>{ CHORUS } - - - - -<\/strong><\/span>\r\n\r\n\r\n<\/span>\r\n\r\n<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by John Fogarty &#8211; Key of A Verse intro: C G F C (repeat) [C] I see a [G] bad [F] moon a-rising [C] [C] I see [G] trouble [F] on the way [C] [C] I see [G] earth-[F]-quakes and lightnin&#8217; [C] [C] I see [G] bad [F] times today &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/bad-moon-rising\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Bad Moon Rising<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,120,133,126,265,13,59,116,117,115,131,97,73],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-perflive","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-elvis","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage","category-rainy-day","category-start-songs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30139,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114\/revisions\/30139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}