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, but we're gonna take the beginning of this song and do it easy But then we're gonna do the finish rough, the way we do Proud Mary Rollin' on the river, listen to the story now Left up the job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleep, and I was worried about the way things might have been Big wheel keep on turnin', oh, the Proud Mary keep on burnin' And we're rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river I said we're rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river Left up the job in the city, workin' for the man every night and day And I never lost one minute of sleep, and I was worried about the way things might have been Big wheel keep on turnin', oh, the Proud Mary keep on burnin' And we're rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river If you come down to the river, oh, you bet you're gonna find some people there You don't have to worry if you've got no money, the people on the river, they're havin' a good time Big wheel keep on turnin', oh, the Proud Mary keep on burnin' And we're rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river