Ike & Tina Turner — Proud Mary

[Intro, spoken: Tina] You know, every now and then I think you might like to hear something from us Nice and easy but there's just one thing You see, we never ever do nothing nice and easy We always do it nice and rough So we're going to take the beginning of this song And do it easy Then we're going to do the finish rough This is the way we do 'Proud Mary' [Verse 1: Ike] Left a good job in the city Working for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleeping Worrying 'bout the way that things might have been [Chorus: Ike & Tina, Tina, Ike] Big wheel keep on turning Proud Mary keep on burning And we're rolling, rolling Rolling on the river Listen to the story [Verse 1: Ike & Tina] Left a good job in the city Working for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleeping Worrying 'bout the way that things might have been [Chorus: Ike & Tina, Tina, Ike] Big wheel keep on turning Proud Mary keep on burning And we're rolling, rolling Rolling yeah Rolling Rolling on the river Rolling on the river [Verse 2: Ike & Tina, Tina, Ike] Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis Ya know I pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans But I never saw the good side of the city Until I hitched a ride on the riverboat queen [Chorus: Ike & Tina, Tina, Ike] Ya know the big wheel keep on turning Proud Mary keep on burning And we're rolling (Rolling) Rolling yeah (Rolling) Rolling on the river (Rolling on the river) Said we're rolling (Rolling) Rolling yeah (Rolling) Rolling on the river (Rolling on the river) [Verse 1: Tina] Oh I left a good job in the city Working for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleeping Worrying 'bout the way that things might have been [Chorus: Tina, Female Chorus Both] Big wheel keep on turning (Turning) Proud Mary keep on burning (Burning) Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river We're rolling, rolling, rolling on the river [Post-Chorus: Tina, Tina & Female Chorus] We're up Do do do do do do do do do do Alright [Verse 2: Tina] Oh I cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis And I pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans But I never saw the good side of the city 'Til I hitched a ride on the riverboat queen [Chorus: Tina, Female Chorus Both] Big wheel keep on turning (Turning) Proud Mary keep on burning (Burning) We're rolling, said we're rolling, we're rolling on the river I'll tell ya we're rolling, rolling, rolling on the river [Post-Chorus: Tina, Tina & Female Chorus] We're up Do do do do do do do do do do Alright Yeah Ooo yeah yeah yeah yeah Ooo [Verse 3: Tina Turner] If you come down to the river I bet you going to find some people who live And you don't have to worry if you got no money People on the river are happy to give [Chorus: Tina, Female Chorus Both] Big wheel keep on turning (Turning) Proud Mary keep on burning (Burning) And we're rolling, and we're rolling, and we're rolling on the river Tell me one more time rolling, (Yeah) Rolling, rolling on the river (All right, ooo yeah) [Post-Chorus: Tina, Tina & Female Chorus] We're up Do do do do do do do do do do Yeah Alright Uh-huh Wooo Ohh [Outro: Tina, Female Chorus Both] Rolling, rolling, yeah,rolling on the river (All right now) Rolling, yeah, rolling, rolling on the river Said we're rolling, oh rolling, yeah rolling on the river I'll tell ya we're rolling, rolling, rolling on the river Yeah Alright Uh-huh