"House of the Rising Sun (Live)" genre: Folk
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	The well known traditional song, here in the version I learned from Dylan ie. sung from the woman's point of view and with all verses.
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	Story Behind the Song Archdruid Tim Sebastion of the Secular Order of Druids reckons it is probably one of my best covers. This version was recorded in studios owned by Keith Lunt as part of the celebrations for the Crowning of the Bard of Caer Badon (Bath). Keith had very kindly allowed a lot of buskers and street musicians to use his facilities and it all ran very late. It was recorded in one take at some unearthly hour and the end got cut somewhere in the mix. The track is nevertheless worth including here as a 'Live' version of a trad. song. Lyrics There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl And me, God knows, I'm one. My mother was a tailor, She sewed my new blue jeans, My sweetheart was a gamblin' man Down in New Orleans. Now the only thing that a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time that he's satisfied Is when he's all a-drunk. He fills his glass up to the rim Then he'll pass the cards around And the only pleasure he gets out of life Is rambling from town to town. Got one foot on the platform And the other on the train, I'm going back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain. My life is almost over, My race is almost run, I'm going back to end my days Down in the Rising Sun. So mothers tell your children, Not to do what I have done But to shun that house of sin and misery They call the Rising Sun.

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