OMG! Anthony Bourdain just committed suicide! 61 yrs old.
The House of the Rising Sun
Josh White taught it to Libby Holman but he got the song from a “hillbilly” some years before.
Clarence Ashley’s words from 1933:
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There are a house in New Orleans,
They call the Rising Sun,
Where many poor boys to destruction has gone,
And me, oh God, for one.
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Just fill the glass up to the brim,
Let the drinks go merrily around,
We’ll drink to the life of a rounder, poor boy,
Who goes from town to town.
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All in this world does a rambler want,
Is a suitcase and a trunk,
The only time he’s satisfied,
Is when he’s on a drunk.
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Now boys don’t believe what a young girl tells you,
Let her eyes be blue or brown,
Unless she’s on some scaffold high,
Saying, “Boys, I can’t come down. ”
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I’m going back, back to New Orleans,
For my race is almost run,
To spend the rest of my wicked life,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JfR-LL_7EEM