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Animals - House Of The Rising Sun guitar chord

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From: John Marshall Daniel

Subject: House of the Rising Sun

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.

I don't recall precisely what these chords are, just that (I'm pretty

sure) they're Asomething and Bsomething...

Asomething:

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:

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)

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

                                                              a

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!!!!

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