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John Fogerty Drops Bitter Anti-Trump Song, ‘Weeping In The Promised Land’

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Jem Aswad Senior Music EditorJohn Fogerty has dropped a pointed new song called “Weeping in the Promised Land,” a gospel-flavored, piano-driven lament about the state of the country and the world.

With multiple references to President Trump as a “forked-tongued Pharoah” as well as Covid (“With dread in their eyes all the nurses are crying”) and  the deaths of George Floyd and Breanna Taylor  (“Out in the street on your neck with a knee the people are cryin your words i can’t beathe and the white judge say been no crime here today”), the song clearly is intended as a successor to Fogerty’s topical songs of the late ‘60s with Creedence Clearwater Revival, such as “Fortunate Son” and “Have You Ever Seen the Rain.” The song’s video features.

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