Bill R - I'm pretty sure the lyrics are "The Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun" - it's part of the list of all the songs the boy, Johnny, plays to best the Devil. At least that's what I found when I looked up the lyrics on the I-net.

Yes, it was Dave Rainwater who was doing the fiddling. Sorry I forgot his name.   Here's the way it came down: When the Black Irish band start their second set, Rainwater comes on stage by himself and does this solo spot for about ten minutes.

He starts out by saying that Charlie Daniels had a hit song with "Devil Went Down to Georgia," and plays a short piece of that tune, saying it is perhaps a variation of "Lonesome Fiddle Blues". Then he explains that the song describes a contest between the Devil and a country boy named Johnny, and that the boy jumps up on a stump and plays a series of tunes which are better than the Devil's fiddling.

Rainwater then says he'd like to play those tunes, and then proceeds through them - naming them and playing them each about two times through. When he gets to "Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun" he makes the reference to it being an old British tune. What he plays sounds like an old timey version, with lots of double stopping and shuffle bowing, of "House of the Rising Sun" - the one which every aspiring folky guitarist was doing in the 1960's.

Later on, after the show, I asked him about the "Devil's in the House of the Rising Sun" tune, and he again repeated the 'very old British tune' info - saying 'about 700 years old' - He didn't give any references, and, unfortunately, I didn't purchase one of their CDs. That piece may not have been on it anyway, since he seemed to imply this was a fairly new piece of schtick for the act.