"Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans"

(Tarkennus - 5.9)
The line, "Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans" is actually "Pumped a lot of 'Pane," as in propane. He (John) was pumping gas.

(That pronunciation- pane - pain - presumably a local idiom - but how did John find it out? I mean when writing Proud Mary he had never visited New Orleans or even lower Mississippi Delta Region Area.
Perhaps he hit it from Mark Twain`s Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn).

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Proud Mary
Written by John Fogerty - Creedence Clearwater Revival

Originally performed by Creedence Clearwater Revival (CCR)
Song went to # 2 on the Top 40 charts in 1969

Remade in 1971 by Ike and Tina Turner, the high energy version went to #4 on the charts.

Proud Mary is about life on a Mississippi River riverboat back in the late 1800s & early 1900s.

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Proud Mary - (LP - Bayou Country,- 69)

Left a good job in the city,
Workin' for The Man ev'ry night and day,
And I never lost one minute of sleepin',
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis,
Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans,
But I never saw the good side of the city,
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

If you come down to the river,
Bet you gonna find some people who live.
You don't have to worry 'cause you have no money,
People on the river are happy to give.

Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.






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