House of the rising sun  Animals

##song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research. ##Subject: House of the Rising Sun#Hmm...#The chords posted earlier aren't the way I play it, though I haven't#and if it's really wrong I'll repost tomorrow.Here goes.#I don't recall precisely what these chords are, just that (I'm prettyAsomething:


[E]   [3]  [B]   [2]  [G]   [2]  [D]   [2]  [A]  [E]  Bsomething:


[E]   [1]  [B]   [3]  [G]   [3]  [D]   [3]  [A]  [E]  Again, I don't remember the precise chord names.


Play this clean and get a friend to tool along with you on a cheezy


Casio keyboard for that Animals sound.


HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN


    by some long-dead blues warrior


      Dm      F       G        Bsomething


There is a house in New Orleans


      Dm      F       Asomething


They call the rising sun


        Dm       F        G      Bsomething


and its been the ruin of many a poor boy


     Dm   Asomething Dm


and God, I know I'm one


(repeat as necessary through the rest of the song.


Approximate lyrics continue)


My mother was a tailor


She sewed my new blue jeans


My father was a gamblin' man


Down in New Orleans


Now the only things a gambler needs


is a suitcase and a trunk


and the only time he's feeling satisfied


is when he's on a drunk


Now mothers


Tell your children


Not to do what I have done


And spend your life in sincere misery


in the House of the Rising Sun


                                                                                     

--------




For each chord I play a little run down the strings in order like this,


hitting the 2 bass strings first:


EA DGBeBG


(Does this make sense? It means just start at the bass E string and go


down in order and come back up. But you knew that. Just listen to the


song, timing is pretty simple.)


Again, if I discover that this is really wrong I'll repost.


Swing,


[jd]listening to "Bonzo Goes to Bitburg" while watching RR at the Repub. Convention


This is my version of House Of the Rising Sun, by the Animals.  I think


I learned this from some book or something.








The chord changes are as follows:








The chords are arpeggiated starting at the 5th string, all the


way to the 1st string and then back up the 2nd and 3rd strings.





For example:





   The song begins with arpeggiated Am (let arpeggios ring out)





                                                                                    

 E ---------------
 A -0-------------
 D ---2-----------
 G -----2-------2-
 B -------1---1---
 E ---------0-----









After arpeggiating for a while the song "breaks out" and instead of


arpeggios, the guitarist strums the same chords in the following rythm


(this is also the rythm for the arpeggios):





     |   |-|-|   |   |   |


     |   | | |   |   |   |


    0   0 0 0   0   0   0








The chord voicings I use follow:








  [Am]      [C]     [D]     [F]     [E]                                                              

----------------------------------------------
---0----3----0----0----2----------------------
---2----2----0----3----2----------------------
---2----0----3----2----1----------------------
---1----1----2----1----0----------------------
---0----0----3----1----0----------------------






I'm not positive F chord...  It could be a barre chord, but I can't switch


to it fast enough, so I use the one shown above.








The bass line, I believe, is the note of every chord, an


octave lower.  So, the bass line would be:





 [Am]    [C]   [D]   [F]   [Am]    [C]   [E]   [E]   [Am]    [C]   [D]   [F]   [Am]    [E]   [Am]    [E]                                  

---------------------0--0-------------------0------0-
--0--3---------0--3---------0--3---------0------0----
--------0--3----------------------0--3---------------
-----------------------------------------------------









Both the bass line and guitar remain the same throughout the entire song


(except when the guitar switches from arpeggios to chords, for only the


last verse, I think,  and then back to arpeggios)





jlewis@night.vtc.vsc.edu


From: roadrun@iol.ie (Roadrunner Tour Management)


Subject: House of the R.-Sun "beefed up"


Another way of playing House of the R. Sun:


There is a house in New Orleans


        [Am7]     [Cmj7]          [Dm7]        [Fmj7]     They call the Rising Sun


          Am7    Cmj7   E#9/ Eb9         (# = sharp  and b =


flat, in this case change from


sharp 9 to a flat 9, "one bar each")


It's been the ruin of many a poor boy


      [Am7]          [Cmj7]        [Fmj7]            [Fm7]And god I know, I'm one


       Am7  E#9 / Eb9 / Am7      ( in this case E#9 and Eb9 are


being played for


                                                    only "one


BEAT each)


Have fun with this version of "House of........."!!! It will


leave you lots of room


to improvise!


Good Luck,  "Roadrunner Tour Management"     (  Carsten  )


PS.:Any questions concerning  the chords etc..., don't


hesitate!!!!