Tina Turner • Proud Mary • 1970 <br /><br />Soul Train Show • 1970 <br /><br />------ <br /><br />Left a good job in the city <br /><br />workin' for the man ev'ry night and day <br />and I never lost one minute of sleepin' <br />worryin' 'bout the way things might have been. <br /><br />Big wheels keep on turnin' <br /><br />Proud mary keep on burnin' <br /><br />rollin' <br />rollin' <br />rollin' on the river. <br /><br />Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis <br /><br />pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans <br /><br />but I never saw the good side of the city <br />until I hitched a ride on a roverboat queen. <br /><br />Big wheels ... <br /><br />If you come down to the river <br /><br />bet you gonna find some people who live. <br />You don't have to worry 'cause you have no money <br /><br />people on the river are happy to give. <br /><br />Big wheels ... <br /><br />Rollin' <br />Rollin' <br />Rollin' on the river. <br />Rollin' <br />Rollin' <br />Rollin' on the river. <br />Rollin' <br />Rollin' <br />Rollin' on the river. <br /><br />•••