"Fortunate Son" is a song by Creedence Clearwater Revival featured on their album Willy and the Poor Boys released in 1969. It was also released as a single, together with "Down on the Corner," in September 1969.
According to John Fogerty, the song was indirectly inspired by David Eisenhower, the grandson of President Dwight David Eisenhower who married Julie Nixon, the daughter of President Richard Nixon in 1968. Eisenhower later enlisted in the Navy Reserve.
This song was popular during the Vietnam War and is included in several Vietnam films and computer games. The song symbolizes the thoughts of a man who is being drafted and speaks out against the war in Vietnam while being supportive of the soldiers fighting there. It is sung from the perspective of one of these men, who ends up fighting because he is not a "Senator's son" or a "fortunate one."
Fogerty performed the song in front of President Bill Clinton and a national TV audience on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial during the "America's Millennium" show on December 31, 1999.
On Fogerty's new album (revival) he performs a song called "I Can't Take It No More," which he wrote to be the song that comes after "Fortunate Son."
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