Biography:
James Bay (born James Michael Bay on 4 September 1990) is an English singer-songwriter and guitarist. In February 2015, Bay received the Brit Awards "Critics' Choice" award. At the 2016 Brit Awards he received the award for Best British Male Solo Artist. Bay also received three nominations at the 2016 Grammy Awards, for Best New Artist, Best Rock Album, and Best Rock Song.
Hailing from Hitchin, Hertfordshire, Bay gained a reputation thanks to stints
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Other songs:
- Best Fake Smile
- Clocks Go Forward
- Craving
- Hold Back The River
- Hold Back The River - Fingerpicking
- If You Ever Want To Be In Love
- Incomplete
- Let It Go
- Move Together
- Need The Sun To Break
- Peer Pressure
- Pink Lemonade
- Scars
- Us
- Waking Up In Vegas
- When We Were On Fire
- Wild Love
- Collide
- Four Five Seconds
- Get Out While You Can
- Glow
- Hear Your Heart
- Heavy Handed
- I Found You
- In My Head
- Just For Tonight
- Proud Mary
- Running
- Slide
- Sparks
- Stand Up
- Stealing Cars
- Sugar Drunk High
- Wait In Line
- Wanderlust
- Wasted On Each Other
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tabbed by Bekkos.
The original is not played with open chords but barred.
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
C
Left a good job in the city
C
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
C
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
C
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
C G
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Verse 2]
C G
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
C
Pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans
C
But I never saw the good side of the city
(Slide E-string down from fret 17 to 7)
N.C
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
(F is a riff)
C F
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
C*
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Solo guitar lick]
G Bb G D C F C
[Verse 3]
C
If you come down to the river
C
Bet you gonna find some people who live
C
You don't have to worry 'cause you have [if you got] no money
C F
People on the river are happy to give
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
C Am C
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river (Yeah)
C Am C
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Guitar Solo]
C
Bb G Bb G
Bb G Bb C G7
C Am G C
G C G C
G Am
F C
D C D C
C
G C G C
C
Am Bb C
F G C G
Am F
C
D C
C D C G
[Verse 4]
C
Left a good job in the city
C
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
C
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
C
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
C Am
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
C
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Outro]
Bb F Db C*
F*
* = Let ring
The original is not played with open chords but barred.
[Intro]
C
[Verse 1]
C
Left a good job in the city
C
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
C
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
C
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
C G
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Verse 2]
C G
Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis
C
Pumped a lot of pane down in New Orleans
C
But I never saw the good side of the city
(Slide E-string down from fret 17 to 7)
N.C
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
(F is a riff)
C F
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
C*
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Solo guitar lick]
G Bb G D C F C
[Verse 3]
C
If you come down to the river
C
Bet you gonna find some people who live
C
You don't have to worry 'cause you have [if you got] no money
C F
People on the river are happy to give
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
C Am C
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river (Yeah)
C Am C
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Guitar Solo]
C
Bb G Bb G
Bb G Bb C G7
C Am G C
G C G C
G Am
F C
D C D C
C
G C G C
C
Am Bb C
F G C G
Am F
C
D C
C D C G
[Verse 4]
C
Left a good job in the city
C
Workin' for the man ev'ry night and day
C
And I never lost one minute of sleepin'
C
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been
[Chorus]
G
Big wheel keep on turnin'
Am F
Proud Mary keep on burnin'
C Am
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
C
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river
[Outro]
Bb F Db C*
F*
* = Let ring
James Cottriall
James Dean Bradf (...)
James Droll
James Hersey
James Honer