Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'

Subject: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,derik
Date: 22 Feb 00 - 09:24 AM

I am trying to find a transcription for guitar of Leadbelly's "New Orleans." Can anyone help?

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: Metchosin
Date: 23 Feb 00 - 01:19 AM

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,Chaz
Date: 16 Dec 03 - 08:59 PM

yeah, i want these tabs too...

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,dan guest
Date: 22 Dec 04 - 01:56 PM

same here

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: Peace
Date: 23 Dec 04 - 07:08 AM

House of the Rising Sun?

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST,Roger in Baltimore
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 08:10 AM

As Brucie asked, are you looking for Lead Belly's "House of the Rising Sun' or maybe some other tune like "Fanning Street"?

Roger in Baltimore

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: Sorcha
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 11:25 AM

Would you settle for either Arlo or Steve Goodman's City of N.O.?

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: 12-stringer
Date: 28 Dec 04 - 05:38 PM

It's really "House of the Rising Sun," but it's called "In New Orleans" on the old 78 (Musicraft, I think, without looking it up) and on all the LP/CD reissues of it. I had this on a Sutton LP from the 60s, the first Leadbelly record I ever owned, purchased for 77 cents out of a bargain bin at G C Murphys. ("Leadbelly Sings Songs of Bad Men and Beautiful Women, with the Satin Strings," 8 tracks in all.)

The thread at the top of the page, "Leadbelly Chords," contains several posts about the song, including a good description of the guitar part by Steve-O.

Tab for the song is in Julius Lester's "12-String Guitar as Played by Leadbelly," an Oak book from the 60s, but NB that he only tabs the first half of the guitar break. The second half is the same, except for the last two or three notes -- easy to work out if you know the first half, as it just resolves back to the tonic, where the first half ends on the dominant.

It's in G but the progression is slightly unusual, and the bass runs are what make it.

Subject: RE: Tab request: Leadbelly's 'New Orleans'
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Sep 07 - 01:29 AM

The Original House of Rising Sun is In New Orleans and the lyrics is even differend! there is no house in it's lyrics! it starts as : Big dawn in new Orleans they call the rising sun ... !