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Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary

<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjN6FCqV-HkNTJV2dr6HPOVRzITNADMnJgvaDO2Fr8rBnjEhbWfI3o4KnAffxO81KZi3bxSxomOxHUmUjrU99ZvJkgcnI98028aGk6wDFKD6vPKYLFy-zfIkNQk3XH6mVvrz8OKPpTEwo/s1600/ike_tina_turner-proud_mary.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhjN6FCqV-HkNTJV2dr6HPOVRzITNADMnJgvaDO2Fr8rBnjEhbWfI3o4KnAffxO81KZi3bxSxomOxHUmUjrU99ZvJkgcnI98028aGk6wDFKD6vPKYLFy-zfIkNQk3XH6mVvrz8OKPpTEwo/s1600/ike_tina_turner-proud_mary.jpg" width="640" /></a></div><br />Tina Turner first covered "Proud Mary" in 1970 with her husband at the time, Ike Turner. The Ike & Tina Turner version was released as a single from their Workin' Together album and the song differed greatly from the structure of the original, but is also well known and has become one of Tina's most recognizable signature songs. <br /><br />The Turners' version was substantially rearranged by Soko Richardson and Ike Turner. The song started off with a slow, sultry tone in which Tina introduced the song and warned them that they were gonna start it off "nice and easy" as "we never do nothing nice and easy" but said they would finish it "nice and rough". <br /><br />After the lyrics are first sung softly by the Turners, the song is then turned into a funk rock vamp with Turner and assorted background singers delivering soulful vocals. It reached #4 on the pop charts on March 27, 1971, two years to the week after Creedence Clearwater Revival's version was at its peak, and won the Grammy Award for Best R&B Vocal Performance by a Group in 1972.<br /><br /><iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="480" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/hzQnPz6TpGc?rel=0" width="640"></iframe><br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: large;"><u>Proud Mary Lyrics</u></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Left a good job in the city</div><div style="text-align: center;">Working for the man ev'ry night and day</div><div style="text-align: center;">Then I never lost a minute of sleep</div><div style="text-align: center;">When worrying 'bout the way that things might have been</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Big wheels keep on turning</div><div style="text-align: center;">Proud Mary keeps on burning</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis</div><div style="text-align: center;">Pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans</div><div style="text-align: center;">But I never saw the good side of the city</div><div style="text-align: center;">'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Big wheels keep on turning</div><div style="text-align: center;">Proud Mary keeps on burning</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">If you come down to the river</div><div style="text-align: center;">Betcha gonna find the people who live</div><div style="text-align: center;">You don't have to worry though you have no money</div><div style="text-align: center;">People on the river are happy to give</div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;">Big wheels keep on turning</div><div style="text-align: center;">Proud Mary keeps on burning</div><div style="text-align: center;">Rolling, rolling, rolling on the river</div><br /><br /><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6412456300276695"; /* 336x280, stvoreno 2011.08.12 */ google_ad_slot = "2114137887"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; </script><br /><br /><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script><br /><script type="text/javascript">google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6412456300276695"; /* 336x280, stvoreno 2011.08.12 */ google_ad_slot = "2114137887"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; </script><br /><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "ca-pub-6412456300276695"; /* novi-1 */ google_ad_slot = "4178019576"; google_ad_width = 336; google_ad_height = 280; </script><script src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Ike & Tina Turner - Proud Mary

Tina Turner first covered "Proud Mary" in 1970 with her husband at the time, Ike Turner. The Ike & Tina Turner version was rel...