Lyric discussion by bradburyesqu 

Drugs? Please. CCR was probably the least drug-induced band of the time. All though they did there, experimenting they never performed high and Fogerty never wrote hi. He felt that the belief that drugs made people more creative was not only wrong but also sad. This song was written for his children. It’s about watching a carnival come through town through the eyes of a child. He was imagining what these strange things may look like to a kid. And that’s straight from the horse’s moth.

All the 60's artists wanted to be like the Beatles, so this is a song about drug run (as Lucy in the Sly with Diamonds)... covered by a child song!! Lennon did the same...

Boy , this Fogerty song is talking about locking the door to smoke and then travel through the effects of marijuana ... Then you say if you do not want to travel on a flying spoon and see things provided by a magician! But if you do not want to see the truth in the song the problem is yours alone. In normal state no one can see elephants playing in the band or giant tumbling and at the end he says : Today I do not want problems and watch the back door for me smoking quiet ! Fogerty...

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