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Thread #8592   Message #1520411
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Jul-05 - 08:22 PM
Thread Name: Origin or title of House of the Rising Sun?
Subject: RE: Origin or title of House of the Rising Sun?
Oh, my!
Second verse of Weavers', last line is minus the last word- Was when he drank his liquor DOWN.

The verse "One foot on the platform," is in "The Rising Sun Blues," "Our Singing Country," 1941, Lomax and Lomax, but not in "The Weavers' Song Book." It is in the version by the Almanac Singers, 1941, and it was used by Bob Dylan.
Almanac Singers lyrics: Rising Sun

Mustn't leave out Dolly Parton:

The House of the Rising Sun
(Dolly Parton, 1980)

There is a house down in New Orleans
Down in the Vieux Carré
A house they call the Rising Sun
Where love and money are made.
My father he was a gambler
Mother died when I was young
And I've worked since then to *please the men
At the house of the Rising Sun.

There is a house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a good girl
And oh, God, you know I'm one.

So mothers you go telling all your daughters
Not to do what I have done
To live a life of sin, shame and strife
In the house of the Rising Sun.

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a good girl
And oh God, you know I'm one
Oh, God, you know I'm one.

*pleasure?
"9 to 5 and Odd Jobs" cd. Unusual treatment. Back-up music distracting. This cd has been re-mastered and re-issued.