The strum pattern for the song is down up blunt up.

                               (that's the intro)


[Verse 1]


1+2+3+4+ Left 

a good job in 

the city (blun

t) 1 + working

 for the man
every night and day (blunt) but i never lost one minute of sleeping
(blunt)worryin' bout the way things might have been (blunt)

Big wheels kee

p on turning (

blunt) 1 +

Proud mary kee

p on

Burnring (blun

t) 1 +

Rollin (blunt)

 1 + rollin (b

lunt) 1 + roll

in on the rive

r 1 + 2 +


[Chorus]


Cleaned a lot 

of plates in m

emphis pumped 

a lot of pain 

down in new
orleans but i never saw the good side of the city til i hitched a
ride on a river boat queen


big wheels kee

p on turnin


proud mary kee

p on


Burnin

 rollin ... (x2)


[Outro]


Now if you go 

down o the riv

er bet you gon

na find some p

eople who
live you dont have to worryif you got no money people on the river
are happy to give

Repeat like other verses with the end of the verse (big wheels.....)

Do rol.... 3x

(Outro ending on  chord)