In Charlie Daniel's folk-country-pop hit of a few years ago, "Devil Went Down to Georgia", the protagonist in the song has a contest with the devil. He jumps up on a stump and proceeds to play a series of tunes - "Fire on the mountain, Run boys run, Devil's in the house of the rising sun, Chicken in the bread pan picking out dough, Granny does your dog bite no child no". I heard a fiddler the other night do a bit where he played through all these tunes. "Devil's in the house of the rising sun" sounded much like the folk tune known as "House of the rising sun". The fiddler claimed it was based on a seven-hundred-year-old British tune. I can't find it referenced in the Ceolas tune finder. Does anyone have any info about it??
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