Halloween Tunes: “Bad Moon Rising” by Creedence Clearwater Revival (There’s a bathroom on the right.)

Photo: Brian from Bountiful, Utah

Famously misheard lyrics. The line is “There’s a bad moon on the rise.”

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John Fogerty told Rolling Stone that he was inspired to write this song after watching the movie The Devil and Daniel Webster.

 Here's the trailer.

In the movie, a hurricane hits and destroys all the crops--except for those of the man who made the deal with the devil.

Fogerty says, " That image was in my mind. I went, "Holy mackerel!" My song wasn't about Mr. Scratch, and it wasn't about the deal. It was about the apocalypse that was going to be visited upon us."