Despite what you may have heard, this is not a song about drugs.  The flying spoon was not for cocaine.  The animals were not the result of an acid trip.  The parade?  That was just a reference to a passage from a Dr. Seuss book.  Instead, John Fogerty wrote this song for his son, Josh, and he filled it with imagery that he thought would appeal to a 3 year-old.

The video, which was filmed long before the days of MTV, is a performance clip, featuring CCR performing the song and looking like they’re having the time of their lives doing so.  When you see everyone so happy here, it’s easy to forget that, in just another two years, John Fogerty would leave CCR and he and his former bandmates would spend the next few decades suing each other.