Album: Green River (1969)
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  • Traffic in the city turns my head around
    No, no, no, no, no
    Backed up on the freeway, backed up in the church
    Everywhere you look there's a frown, frown

    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone
    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone

    People keep atalkin', they don't say a word
    Jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw, jaw
    Talk up in the White House, talk up to your door
    So much goin' on I just can't hear

    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone
    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone

    Hurryin' to get there so you save some time
    Run, run, run, run, run
    Rushin' to the treadmill, rushin' to get home
    Worry 'bout the time you save, save

    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone
    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone

    Com, commotion
    Git, git, git, gone Writer/s: John Cameron Fogerty
    Publisher: CONCORD MUSIC PUBLISHING LLC
    Lyrics licensed and provided by LyricFind

Comments: 2

  • Eliot from South CarolinaCCR also played this live at Woodstock
  • Jennifur Sunlove this song it is how I felt when I had to move from a small town where I grew up to a small city not really to far from where John lived when he grew up. when i have to drive on the freeways it is Commotion
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