Proud Mary

Tina Turner made dozens of songs about her life and surroundings, but the song that connected to me the most was about a women who had an average life. She went to different towns and city but never saw the good side of town Until she went on a boat ride on the riverboat queen and found out how nice and wonderful the good side of the city is. This song is called "Proud Mary" by Tina Turner. It was made in 1968. I chose this song because It related to me and the book I'm reading in several ways.

When she says, "Never saw the good side of the city till I hitched a ride on the river boat Queens". I think it relates to how Austin in this book is separated into two sections east Austin, Where Armpit lives, being the bad side, And the west side, Being the good side of the city. Also I think her hitching a ride on the river boat is how Armpit got caught by the current. But this was a good thing. Like how she met very nice people on the river, Armpit wouldn't of met good friends to, like Kaira, Newberg and Fred.

" Left a good job down in the city, Working for the man every night and day, And never lost one minute of sleep, Worrying 'bout the way things might of been" This relates to her life. How she left a good job to become a famous singer and the man she is working for is Ike. She worried bout the way things might of been meaning she had a not very pleasant life before she meet Ike

Cleaned allot of plates in Memphis, Pumped allot of tane down in new Orleans, but never saw the good side of the city" In my opinion this is how she went to diff rent places and did different things such as acting but never saw the good side of the city. Meaning how she was abused by Ike and probably didn't enjoy performing with him and never saw the good side of being famous.

"big wheels kept on roll'in, Proud Mary kept on burning, And we roll'in, roll'in, roll'in on the river" The era was the song was the hippie era and hippies smoke marijuana, which is Mary. And while all this craziness was going on she was just go'in with the flow, down the river.

"If you come down to the river, I bet you gonna find people who live, You don't have to worry if you got no money the people on the river are happy to give" This relates to me by how I usually don't go or meet new people, because I'm a "boy in a bubble", but I got out of the bubble and meet new people that are very nice and happy

I chose Proud Mary and truly understand it now, Especially, because we had to write a 500 reason of why you chose this song and how it relates to you .Since in this project you had to chose a song and truly understand it I went through many song and found that the lyrics are kinda more important then the song itself. SO now on I really listen to the lyrics.