Proud mary what is the meaning

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. Hitching a ride on the river queen is interesting.

Fit in with everything else here it just seems to be saying that her lot really improved when she set up shop as a whore on a river showboat instead of just drifting around as a street hooker. But there is a way this could have been kind of a dig, with wild foreshadowing.

Kudos to osubuckeye for thinking this could have been about pumping iron but he didn't tie it all together. They were from San Francisco, but pretended they weren't from San Francisco.

Among themselves they were about the bitchiest band ever. The songwriter's brother, and also a bandmate, died of AIDS. I don't know if the writer took it up the a.. In the 60s and 70s you couldn't have had a career if the public knew. But in a song about prostitution maybe he was working in a message to the underground that yeah, some of the band went both ways or maybe they were just pure gay.

HawaiiJack on November 29, Link. Hawaiijack, you've got to be right! That's so obvious. How the hell were all so stupid as to think it was about a riverboat!! Bit of a geek alert going your way. Try this at home. For those of you who think with the left hand side of the brain do a test online if you aren't sure - generally you are quite good at maths, taking words literally and being a bit of a bore, no offense intended listen to this song and then do things associated with the right hand side of the mind e.

The results are pretty amazing!! Oh and the song is pretty good too! Took me ages to figure out what it was called, until a drunken karoake night somewhere in Toronto!!

It doesn't even sound like "pain", I only ever heard "tane" on the recording. Maybe you were listening to a really bad mp3? You could I suppose interepret "tane" in your meaning as a slightly coloquialised version of "tang" or "poontang".

It was a highly entertaining interpretation, thanks for the laughs, but sheesh!! It reminded me of "Don Juan D'Marco" with Johnny Depp where he's doing the psych test telling the shrink what he sees in those big ink smudges on flash cards. I more or less agree with Jack from Hawaii. I thought it was about prostitution as well. With one correction. Does it take a woman to spell this out?

Oh well, Google it. HawaiiJack WOW how did you come accross that meaning? I hope this link i provide will help clarify the true meaning for you Jack The song is about a slave woman and a riverboat. Hope this helps lol. They had the most 2 songs without ever having a 1. Despite popular belief, John Fogerty was not writing from experience when he wrote this.

Thanks to his military commitment, he hadn't ventured further east than Montana. Over have been made so far. Fogerty carried around a notebook with titles that he thought would make good songs. The line, "Pumped a lot of pain down in New Orleans" is actually "Pumped a lot of 'Pane," as in propane. 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' Wendy British.

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