He was pumping gas. Leonard Nimoy, who played "Mr. Spock" on Star Trek , recorded an infamous cover of this song. Near the end, he sings the chorus Elmer Fudd style - "Big wheel keep on toynin', Pwoud Mawy keep on boinin' John Fogerty: about how the guitar riff came about "I don't know where the germ started. I can kind of remember writing the chords at the beginning of the song. 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. Neerja Indian. Zira US English. Oliver British.
Wendy British. Fred US English. Tessa South African. How to say proud mary in sign language? Select another language:. Please enter your email address: Subscribe. Discuss these proud mary definitions with the community: 0 Comments. Notify me of new comments via email. Cancel Report. Create a new account. Log In. Powered by CITE. Are we missing a good definition for proud mary? But you are absolutely wrong. In America, we all have to have the same opinions.
Individual rights and needs mean nothing to anyone. We must all conform, respect and obey authority. That is the rule. That is the law. And if you don't then leave the country. Clocker on June 11, General Comment My husband and I just bought an old classic fiberglass houseboat.
The boat had no name so we struggled to come up with one until I awoke in my sleep one night with the name Proud Mary. The tune swirling in my head, I remembered this old song and how fitting it was to our boat and us.
I came to find this forum about song meanings and some of these interpretations for Proud Mary are bizarre and I do get a kick out of the marijuana train of thought. 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. They will not have to worry, plenty of people on the river will give them money for sex.
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