The Animals (live)
The Animals (film version - 1964)
The Animals version that I like best can be viewed here, love the walking around the studio idea...
Frijid Pink (1971)
Bob Dylan (1961)
Joan Baez (1960)
Woody Guthrie (1941?)
Lead Belly (1948 - the earliest recording, so far as I can tell)
And now for some odd versions:
Duran Duran (live 2006)
Gregory Isaacs (early 1990s)
Sinead O'Connor
The Beatles (jamming)
Gary Glitter
Dolly Parton
Tracy Chapman
ewmarsto (?)
Margaret Beckett!
The lyrics for this song change a lot, but recent versions seem to be male or female:
Male version - eg: The Animals:
"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
------ organ solo ------
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 "
Female version - eg: Dolly Parton:
"There is a house down in New Orleans
Down in the Vieux Carr'e
A house they call the rising sun
Where love and money are made
My father he was a gambler
Mother died when I was young
And I've worked since then
To please the men
At the house of the rising sun
There is a house
Down in New Orleans
They call the rising sun
It's been the ruin of many a good girl
And oh God, you know I'm one
So mothers you go telling all your daughters
Not to do what I've done
To live a life of sin, shame and strife
In the house of the rising sun
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the rising sun
It's been the ruin of many a good girl
And oh God, you know I'm one
Oh God, you know I'm one. "
For even more on the song you could look at Wikipedia or YouTube
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