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ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1601
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 7:55 pm: |     |
My son has a CD called Child's Introduction to Soul (or something like that). The disc starts off with Ike & Tina's version of "Proud Mary." Now I've heard this song a thousand times, and only since my son is playing it did I notice she's singing "pumped a lot of tane down in New Orleans," instead of the correct lyric, which is "pumped a lot of pain..."
Now my question is -- what the hell is she talking about? What is "tane?" Is it short for "octane?" (which does need to be pumped, in fact)
or is it something else? |
Chasm
Citizen
Username: Chasm
Post Number: 159
Registered: 6-2001
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 10:57 pm: | |
Letting your son listen to a wife beater and a hussy! FOR SHAME! What's NEXT?
I've heard that song a bizillion time, not once did I hear "tane". Always pumping pain. I hope you won't be singing incorrect lyrics at our next gig.
thirdgearrocks |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1602
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 11:30 pm: | |
You mustn't be listening to me.
I'm always singing wrong lyrics.
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SoOrLady
Citizen
Username: Soorlady
Post Number: 411
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Monday, March 1, 2004 - 11:37 pm: | |
I always heard pumped a lot of tane - believing it to be short for octane
How does one pump pain? |
Cynicalgirl
Citizen
Username: Cynicalgirl
Post Number: 445
Registered: 9-2003
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 6:16 am: | |
Aerobic dance? |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1603
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 9:09 am: | |
to me "pumped a lot of pain" has a nice metaphorical quality that "pumped a lot of tane" doesn't. Tina's just being too literal. |
NCJanow(akaLibraryLady)
Citizen
Username: Librarylady
Post Number: 1256
Registered: 5-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 9:19 am: | |
Cleaned a lot of plates in memphis
Pumped a lot of tane down in new orleans
But I never saw the good side of the city
Till I hitched a ride on a riverboat queen
Washing dishes and pumping gas!
NCJ aka LibraryLady
On a coffee break..or something like it. |
Hank Zona
Citizen
Username: Hankzona
Post Number: 978
Registered: 3-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 10:06 am: | |
I always thought it was "pumped alot of tane"...what is "pumping pain" anyhow...being a hit man for the mob? "pumping pane"....cleaning windows? |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1604
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 10:41 am: | |
dude,
I put myself through college pumping gas. I can assure you it's a pain. |
ML1
Citizen
Username: Ml1
Post Number: 1605
Registered: 5-2002
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 10:51 am: | |
and here's a link to John Fogerty's original lyric, which is clearly "pumped a lot of pain."
To go off on a tangent --
Went to the taping of Fogerty's VH1 Storytellers show, and he explained that he wrote Proud Mary in about an hour after he received the letter telling him that he had fulfilled all of his military reserve duties, and was completely free of the Army. He did a cartwheel across the lawn, and ran in and wrote Proud Mary.
so I guess within that context the "pain" was real. |
greeneyes
Citizen
Username: Greeneyes
Post Number: 485
Registered: 8-2001
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 2, 2004 - 12:28 pm: | |
I think some artists changed that lyric for their own use when covering the song.
Elvis' version was " I umped a lot of babes down in New Orleans."
And this http://www.elyrics.net/go/t/Tina_Turner/Proud_Mary/
lists the lyrics of Tina's cover as "pumped alot of tane", this lyric probably didn't get radio air play. It was probably used in live performances to be provocative. |
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