Sweet Hitch-Hiker

{{Infobox song

| name = Sweet Hitch-Hiker

| cover = Sweet_Hitch-Hiker_-_Creedence_Clearwater_Revival.jpg

| alt =

| type = single

| artist = Creedence Clearwater Revival

| album = Mardi Gras

| B-side = Door to Door

| released = July 1971

| recorded =

| studio =

| venue =

| genre = {{hlist|Swamp rock{{cite book|first1=Don|last1=Breithaupt|first2=Jeff|last2=Breithaupt|title=Precious and Few: Pop Music of the Early '70s|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RWzOAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA12|date=15 October 1996|publisher=St. Martin's Press|isbn=978-0-312-14704-4|page=12}}|rock and roll{{cite book|first=Thomas M.|last=Kitts|title=John Fogerty: An American Son|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=EuxzCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA179|date=27 August 2015|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-317-96126-0|page=179}}|boogie rock{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0p7uEAAAQBAJ&dq=sweet+hitch-hiker+rock+and+roll&pg=PA91|title=Americana: Aesthetics, Authenticity, and Performance in US Popular Music|author=Pohlmann, Sascha; Holtsträter, Knut|date=2024|publisher=Waxmann Verlag GmbH|isbn=978-3-830-99756-6|page=91}}}}

| length = 2:59

| label = Fantasy

| writer = John Fogerty

| producer = {{hlist|Stu Cook|Doug Clifford|John Fogerty}}

| prev_title = Have You Ever Seen the Rain?

| prev_year = 1971

| next_title = Someday Never Comes

| next_year = 1972

}}

"Sweet Hitch-Hiker" is a song by the American roots/swamp rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival from their 1972 album Mardi Gras. It was first released as a single in 1971 and reached #6 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming their 9th and last top 10 hit.{{cite book |title=The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits |last=Whitburn |first=Joel |author-link=Joel Whitburn |year=2004 |edition=8th |publisher=Billboard Books |location=New York |isbn=978-0-8230-7499-0 |page=152 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=tjQeP-BHy78C&q=%22sweet+hitch-hiker%22+billboard&pg=PA152 |access-date=2009-11-30}} On the Record Retailer UK Singles Chart, it peaked at #36.{{cite book |title=The Complete Book of the British Charts: Singles and Albums |last1=Warwick |first1=Neil |last2=Kutner |first2=Jon |last3=Brown |first3=Tony |year=2004 |publisher=Omnibus Press |location=London |isbn=1-84449-058-0 |page=275 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ib4MyAIpe3MC&q=%22sweet+hitch-hiker%22&pg=PR3 |access-date=2009-11-30}}

The song was written by CCR singer John Fogerty, and it has been described as a "classic John Fogerty stomper" by author Hank Bordowitz.{{cite book |title=Bad Moon Rising: The Unauthorized History of Creedence Clearwater Revival |last=Bordowitz |first=Hank |year=2007 |publisher=Chicago Review Press |location=Chicago |isbn=978-1-55652-661-9 |page=126 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zDDKxvnPy7cC&q=%22sweet+hitch-hiker%22&pg=PA126 |access-date=2009-11-30}}

The song mentions the Greasy King, a restaurant in El Cerrito, the California city where the band members were raised.

The B-side of the single was the song "Door to Door" written and sung by Stu Cook.