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Thread #8592 Message #1520244
Posted By: Q (Frank Staplin)
11-Jul-05 - 05:02 PM
Thread Name: Origin or title of House of the Rising Sun?
Subject: RE: Origin or title of House of the Rising Sun?
The Weavers' version(?) with midi is in the DT, but the version in their songbook has five (copied below) rather than seven verses. (Why is the DT listing quadrupled? All the same lyrics)
House of the Rising Sun
(Chords placed in front rather than above)
There (Bm)is a house in (F#7)New Or-(BM)leans
They (Bm)call the (Bm-A bass)Ris- ing (Bm-C# bass)Sun (Gb);
(F#7) It has (Bm)been the (Bm-A bass)ruin of (Bm-G# bass)many a poor (G)girl,
And (Bm-F# bass)me, oh, (F#7)God, was (Bm)one.
My husband he was a gambling man,
He went from town to town;
And the only time he was satisfied
was when he drank his liquor.
Now the only thing a gambling man needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk;
And the only time he's ever satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk.
Go and tell my baby sister
Never do like I have done,
But to shun that house in New Orleans
That they call the Rising Sun.
I'm going back to New Orleans;
My race is almost run;
I'm going back to spend the rest of my life
Beneath that Rising Sun.
"The Weavers' Song Book," ed. by the Weavers. Arr. for piano and guitar by Robert De Cormier. Harper & Row, 1960, pp. 138-139. Adapt. Fred Hellerman and Ronnie Gilbert; copyright 1951 by Folkways Music Publishers, Inc. N. Y.
Note on chords in the book:
Ninths- May be played as sevenths, (E. g. where D9 appears, substitute D7; for Em9, play Em7, etc.)
*Major sevenths; Sixths- May be omitted, in which case the chord should be played in its basic form. (E. g., G may be played instead of G6; E instead of E6; C instead of Cmaj7; etc.)
* Major seventh chords are quite commonly confused with seventh chords. They are not one and the same. C7 is quite different from Cmaj7; etc.)