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(Yes, it's public domain)
Just the other day I was playing around with my guitar, messing with some chords and I did something that I thought would work nicely as a variation on the melody for "Rising Sun". I had the capo up real high and I just started singing. The song was one I'd kind of grown weary of many years ago, but I found new life in singing this slow and free version.
I began performing it in my live sets that I play regularly, webcast online into Second Life. This is a recording of one of those performances. It's a little different each time I perform it as I just go with my gut and feel out different things.
Snowdragon informed me that the song is actually in PUBLIC DOMAIN (yes, its roots go way back before The Animals' version). We may take a stab at doing something together with it in the future, but for now I wanted to post this simple live version.
Just the other day I was playing around with my guitar, messing with some chords and I did something that I thought would work nicely as a variation on the melody for "Rising Sun". I had the capo up real high and I just started singing. The song was one I'd kind of grown weary of many years ago, but I found new life in singing this slow and free version.
I began performing it in my live sets that I play regularly, webcast online into Second Life. This is a recording of one of those performances. It's a little different each time I perform it as I just go with my gut and feel out different things.
Snowdragon informed me that the song is actually in PUBLIC DOMAIN (yes, its roots go way back before The Animals' version). We may take a stab at doing something together with it in the future, but for now I wanted to post this simple live version.
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Lyrics
(traditional - There are more verses and some variations in older versions)
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other foot on the train
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
Sil-VER
Peter... really great!
Silver