House
of The Rising Sun is an early traditional folk song also known as Rising Sun
Blues. Like many classic folk ballads, "The House of the Rising
Sun" is of uncertain authorship. Musicologists say that it is based on the
tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the
16th century ballad The Unfortunate Rake. According to Alan Lomax, "Rising
Sun" was used as the name of a bawdy house in two traditional English
songs, and it was also a name for English pubs. He further suggested that the
melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song, "Lord Barnard and Little
Musgrave", also known as "Matty Groves", but a survey by
Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs. Lomax
proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to New
Orleans by white southern performers. However, Vance Randolph proposed an
alternative French origin, the "rising sun" referring to the
decorative use of the sunburst insignia dating to the time of Louis XIV, which
was brought to North America by French immigrants.
The
song is famously covered by many artists; one of them is the band Animals in
the mid 60s. The other versions are of Bob Dylan, Doc & Richard Watson
etc..
I
have uploaded both notations and fingerstyle pattern for this song to play on
guitar. It is an easy song if you are familiar with fingerstyle patterns
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