Proud mary what is the song about

Believe it or not, I was playing around with the famous riff from Beethoven's Fifth Symphony. I used to tell people that the song sounds like what it's about. I thought, by the way, that the opening riff sounded just like the wheel at the back of a boat. They helped feed the rumor by naming their second album Bayou Country. I totally agree on everything. Rock'n'roll salute.. Click her to leave your comment concerning the top rock songs.

But indeed I do think this song is about a guy seeking a simpler life. The guy leaves a GOOD job, but not that good, working for the man. He doesn't look back. He never saw the good side of the city, at least not until he hitched a ride on the riverboat queen. The good side of the city can only be seen at a distance, sailing AWAY from it on the river. He finally found the simpler life he was searching for, on the river, away from the city all together. But since they consider themselves rich with the inner peace that life on the river gives them, they are happy and happy to give what they have.

I would love to be living on a houseboat right now, instead of being stuck in a city. I enjoyed reading the interpretation. General Comment This is absurd - Read some history. Steamboats particularly sternwheelers were originally wood powered.

People on the river made money cutting and selling wood to them. The wood was green and did not burn well. To make it catch an accelerant was used. A barrel of Lard was kept in the engine road and every log dipped in it before being tossed in the firebox. At that time the largest maker of Lard was the "Proud Mary" lard company out of Chicago. This was confirmed thru very old black and white movies which clearly showed the loading of barrels of Proud Mary Lard and its use in the engine room.

This is really interesting. I am working on a small film project that touches on this song and about the life on the river. I have searched a good bit on your Proud Mary accelerant lard but find nothing useful so far.

Can you forward any sites or links or leads that would point me to pertinent photos or the mentioned film of the Proud Mary barrels? I would VERY much appreciate learning more! Many thanks! General Comment Okay, boys and girls, once again we are arguing over something that has already been published numerous times. First, the lyric is "pumped alot of 'TANE", refering to pumping gas. And John Fogerty has said that he was working on three songs at the same time, "Proud Mary", about a washer woman, "Riverboat", and "Rollin' on the River".

The three ended up blending into each other, and "Proud Mary" became the name of the riverboat. That's all there is, no drugs, just living on the river.

Fogerty dicussed this at length in an interview with Jay Leno several years ago, and it's all been published. Tina changed it to "tane" go figure! Song Meaning Proud Mary refers to a woman's genitals.

The song is about prostitution. She left working for her pimp to hook on her own and found what, for a hooker, was a better life. Most other interpretations of this song cannot explain "Pumped a lot of pain". A hard working hooker is going to be in some pain from being pumped so often. A guy using a hooker is looking to relieve some kind of pain so this lyric has a double meaning, she is also pumping the John and his pain.

A woman's labial lips when together look like a stack of plates so 'licking the plates clean' lets us know this hooker has branched out with her new found freedom and good life and is now doing women as well. So now we see clearly how "Proud Mary" is indeed her pussy which she is quite proud of and it's "burning" from so much sex. At the end she is trying to recruit more girls without money to become hookers.

In , shortly after getting into a physical altercation while en route to a Dallas hotel, Tina fled her abusive situation. Their divorce was finalized in and Tina would never again meet publicly with Ike, who died in from a cocaine overdose at age Throughout the late seventies and early eighties Tina performed small clubs and hotels as she created a new professional and personal life.

No longer a nostalgia act trading solely on past hits, Tina became a global phenomenon, packing arenas and stadiums with fans new and old who came to respect her ongoing personal journey as much as her evolving musical prowess. In , Tina was asked by Haute Living magazine to play a word association game, saying what came to mind when she was reminded of her hit song titles.

Directed by Babak Najafi, the upcoming thriller stars Taraji P. Henson as an assassin. It premieres in theaters on Friday. The main character is a black woman who is also an assassin. So it irks me when people seek to capitalize on the popularity of my music and the good will it has earned with the public for their own financial gain.

They simply picked the title and wrote a completely fictitious story around it. According to Fogerty, no one from the film consulted him. A rep for Fogerty confirmed to Rolling Stone that the musician is not pursuing legal action.