The House of the Rising Sun

July 23, 2006

Was it a an actual house of gambling? A brothel perhaps named for a famous madam? Or a prison or slave pen?

Did Bob Dylan steal a folksinger’s arrangement of it? Who all has covered it? How is it different when a woman sings it?

And all this time, I thought it was ‘She sewed those new blue jeans.’

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