Stephen Malkmus: We were just killers with the cold eye of a sailor.
John Fogerty: Workin’ for the man, every night and day.
Mick Jagger: Playing the field every night. Tasty.
Fogerty: Hitched a ride on a riverboat queen.
Jagger: Baby, there's fever in the funk house now.
Malkmus: Oh yeah?
Fogerty: If you come down to the river.
Jagger: Baby, I can’t stay, you got to roll me.
Malkmus: And then it’s off with an arm. No time to pray.
Fogerty: ‘Cause you got no money.
Jagger: Tumbling?
Fogerty: Rolling.
Malkmus: Because the tide is leaving.
Fogerty: I never lost one.
Jagger: I’m all sixes and sevens and nines.
Malkmus: I had to pay the piper with my wedding ring.
Jagger: Women is low-down gamblers.
Malkmus: And many other things.
Fogerty: Pumped a lot. Down in New Orleans. On the river.
Jagger: They’re always trying to waste me.
Malkmus: Countless raids. Steel hooks.
Jagger: You know? Roll me and call me.
Fogerty: One minute of sleeping. Might have been.
Malkmus: After some torture? Yeah.
Jagger: Dice. No jewels in my crown. Poor feet a’itchin’.
Malkmus: Kidnapped?
Fogerty: Left.
Jagger: Oh, my my my. The deuce is still wild. Burn the candle right down. Got to.
Fogerty: Bet you gonna.
Malkmus: Good luck!
Jagger: I never stop to worry.
Communal Choogling
CCR's "Proud Mary" vs. The Rolling Stones' "Tumbling Dice" vs. Stephen Malkamus & The Jicks' "The Hook."