Left your job in the city

Working for the man every night and day

But I never lost one minute, oh sweet babe

Worried about the way things might have been

Make way, people chatting

Proud Mary, keep on burning

′Cause I'm rolling, rolling, rolling for a river queen

Rolling, rolling, rolling for a river queen

Clean a lot of place to make face

Halt a lot of pain in New Orleans

But I never saw the great sun of the city

Until I hit, I never got to New Orleans

Make way, people chatting

Proud Mary, keep burning

But I′m rolling, rolling, rolling for a river queen

Rolling, rolling, rolling for a river queen

You come down by the river

Bet you're gonna find some people who live

You don't have to worry, but you don′t have to have money

People on a river are happy to give

Make way, people chatting

Proud Mary, keep burning

′Cause I'm rolling, rolling, rolling for a river queen

Rolling, rolling, rolling for a river queen

You don′t need no money

You don't need no money

People on the river...