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This video features Pete Seeger's "House of the Rising Sun" from the 2003 album "American Favorite Ballads, Vol.2" on Smithsonian Folkways.
Digital Downloads are available of this album in both MP3 and FLAC format.
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Also, this song was written in 16th century England and was popularized in America via immigration. Lyrics were of course changed to reference New Orleans.
dudeifailed 9 hours ago
I think this is my favorite version.
dudeifailed 1 day ago
@polarisreseau I dont think you know what you are talking about, so please give up
GeoffWilde 1 month ago
@polarisreseau What are you rambling about? This was written by a English (or Irish) person, who was traveling to America.
GeoffWilde 1 month ago
@GeoffWilde
house the rising sun = home Japanese or geisha's home, in French=closed home.
polarisreseau 1 month ago
@beachguitar123
this version is nearest of the original, because in origin this Irish ballade was a lament in the immigration of these Irish women made to be sold to survive.
polarisreseau 1 month ago
@polarisreseau It's english actualy, fuckwit.
GeoffWilde 1 month ago
@Dano94910
of course that it is an Irish ballade which spoke about Irish girls made to prostitute itself in America in years after big famine in Ireland, I am French and I know it better than you kind of ignoramus.
polarisreseau 2 months ago
It's got a Celtic sound, I like it
TheOrangeRoad 3 months ago
such a smooth voice
Dano94910 6 months ago