The La Folia Challenge: House of the Rising Sun on Ukulele

LeoHareMusic challenged anybody and everybody to take the "La Folia" chord progression and do 2 things:
1) change the key of the progression, and
2) write or construct a song with the chords
His challenge video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_pxgfVIlRSo

So after noodling around in E minor, I discovered that the chord progression worked well with the old old song "House of the Rising Sun", which has a history as fascinating as "La Folia". In fact, I was able to follow the chord progression exactly, at least from chord to chord.
For info on the history of "Rising Sun": http://www.risingconviction.com/house-of-the-rising-sun/house-of-the-rising-s...
And for the history of La Folia: http://www.folias.nl/html1.html

Lyrics

[Em]There is a house in [B7] New Orleans
[Em] They call the [D] Rising [G]Sun.
And it's been the ruin of
[D]many young poor boys
And [Em] God I [B7] know I'm [Em] one.

My mother was a tailor,
She sewed my new blue jeans.
And my father was a gambling man,
Down in New Orleans.

And the only thing that a gambler need
Is a suitcase and a truck.
And the only time that he's satisfied
Is when he is on that drunk.

Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done.
Spend your life in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun.
With one foot on the platform.
The other on that train.
Yeah I'm going back to New Orleans
to wear that ball and chain.

Category:

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• house
• rising
• sun
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• leadbelly
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• ukulele
• ukelele
• uke

[lewars1912]

I clicked on the "For info on the history of Rising Sun" but was unable to get the webpage. A  "D N S error" occurred. Not sure if my computer is to blame.

[UKISOCIETY]

@lewars1912 I can get the link. Please try again.

[agrlfmtx]

I am planning to record this tomorrow! I just pulled up uke and House of the Rising Sun to see what was out there!! Found ya!! Great job!! t:)

[UKISOCIETY]

Awesome! thanks

[boundless]

Hey! Sorry I missed your Member Video of the Week recognition! I've been swamped with non-ukulele stuff and have been away from the board, but congrats!

[UKISOCIETY]

Thanks! It generated some hits!

[holmwood08]

Very Cohenesque. Nice :)

[lewars1912]

@UKISOCIETY If you, or anyone else may know why I keep getting this "DNS error occurred" message

when clicking on the above link for info on the history of "Rising Sun" I would appreciate your help. Thanks.

[lewars1912]

@UKISOCIETY Hi, Thank you but I still keep getting the message: "DNS error occurred". There must be something wrong with my computer.

[faithtruthlove07]

awesome!! i'm way behind on my subs lol.

[UKISOCIETY]

Thank you!! Epic!