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#From: John Marshall Daniel
#Subject: House of the Rising Sun
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#Hmm...
#Not Dylan, definitely not the Animals, probably traditional.
#The chords posted earlier aren't the way I play it, though I haven't
#played it in a while and may be a bit off. I'll check it when I get home
#and if it's really wrong I'll repost tomorrow.Here goes.
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#I don't recall precisely what these chords are, just that (I'm pretty
#sure) they're Asomething and Bsomething...
Asomething:
[E]
Bsomething:
[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
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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:
Am C D F Am C E E Am C D F Am E Am E .... {repeats, ad infinitum}
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)
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E ---------------
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A -0-------------
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D ---2-----------
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G -----2-------2-
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B -------1---1---
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E ---------0-----
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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]
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---0----3----0----0----2----------------------
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---2----2----0----3----2----------------------
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---2----0----3----2----1----------------------
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---1----1----2----1----0----------------------
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---0----0----3----1----0----------------------
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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]
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--0--3---------0--3---------0--3---------0------0----
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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") [a]
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
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