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 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 big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on burning and we re rolling rolling rolling on the river listen to the story now 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 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  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 ya know the big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on burning and we re rolling rolling yeah rolling on the river said we re rolling rolling yeah rolling on the river 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 big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on burning rolling rolling rolling on the river we re rolling rolling rolling on the river we re up do do do do do do do do do do alright 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 big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on 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 we re up do do do do do do do do do do alright yeah ooo yeah yeah yeah yeah ooo 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 big wheel keep on turning proud mary keep on burning and we re rolling and we re rolling and we re rolling on the river tell me one more time rolling rolling rolling on the river we re up do do do do do do do do do do yeah alright uh huh wooo ohh rolling rolling yeah rolling on the river 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 huh6