The Rising Sun Blues - Ashley and Foster

The Rising Sun Blues
Written by: [Traditional]
Comments: 17th century British folk melody.


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Lyrics:
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.

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.

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.

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. ”

I’m going back, to New Orleans,
For my race is almost run,
To spend the rest of my wicked life,
Beneath the Rising Sun.

Singers:
1. Rising Sun Blues Ashley and Foster 1933 2. Rounder's Luck Homer Callahan February 1936 3. Roy Acuff and His Smoky Mountain Boys 1939 4. The Almanac Singers 1941 5. Joshua White 1942 6. Libby Holman with Josh White 1942 7. In New Orleans Leadbelly 1944 8. Sun Esco Hankins August 23, 1947 9. Hally Wood November 1953 10. Brother John Sellers 1957 11. Glenn Yarbrough 1957 12. Pete Seeger 1958 13. Andy Griffith 1959 14. The Weavers 1959 15. Joan Baez October 1960 16. Miriam Makeba 1960 17. Carolyn Hester 1961 18. Bob Dylan March 19, 1962 19. Tossi Aaron March 1962 20. Odetta 1962 21. Nina Simone 1962 22. Woody Guthrie 1962 23. Roscoe Holcomb 1962 24. Shelby Flint February 1963 25. Hoyt Axton March 1963 26. Marie Laforêt August 1963 27. The Sundowners September 1963 28. Danny Cox 1963 29. The Animals June 1964 30. The Typhoons July 1964 31. The Cousins August 1964 32. Dave Van Ronk August 1964 33. Joe & Eddie September 1964 34. Marianne Faithfull October 23, 1964 35. The Supremes October 1964 36. Jack Elliott 1964 37. Cris Williamson 1964 38. The Platters February 1965 39. Joy Marshall 1965 40. La casa del sol naciente Los Speakers 1965 41. The Barbarians 1965 42. Chas McDevitt & Shirley Douglas 1965 43. The Brothers Four 1965 44. The Gants 1965 45. La Casa Del Sol Naixent Conjunt "Els Dracs" 1965 46. The Supersonics June 1966 47. The Pleazers November 1966 48. Tino & The Revlons 1966 49. The Pozo-Seco Singers 1966 50. The Uniques 1966 51. Paul Nero Band 1966 52. Tim Hardin September 1967 53. Udo Jürgens October 15, 1967 54. Trudy Pitts 1967 55. Herbie Mann 1967 56. Mandy and The Girlfriends 1967 57. The Everly Brothers 1967 58. Deena Webster June 1968 59. N. Maeda - J. Inagaki and The All Stars September 10, 1968 60. Jerry Reed September 1968 61. Bohemian Vendetta 1968 62. Catherine McKinnon 1968 63. Nat Stuckey April 1969 64. Claude King October 1969 65. Conway Twitty January 1970 66. Flower Travellin' Band October 21, 1970 67. The Chambers Brothers 1970 68. Mike Auldridge 1970 69. Electric Food 1970 70. Frijid Pink (billboard hot 100) 1970 71. Minoru Muraoka 1970 72. 村岡 実 [Minoru Muraoka] 1972 73. The Country Gentlemen 1973 74. Jody Miller 1973 75. Max Greger 1974 76. Geordie 1974 77. Joy Fleming 1974 78. Idris Muhammad 1975 79. Leslie West 1975 80. Peter, Sue & Marc 1976 81. Gracie Rivera 1977 82. Charlie Hardiman 1977 83. HOT R.S. 1977 84. Janne Lucas 1978 85. Leroy Van Dyke 1978 86. The Hiltonaires 1978 87. Alan Price 1980 88. Dolly Parton February 1981 89. Pork Dukes 1981 90. Peter Hofmann 1982 91. The Eddy Starr Singers 1984 92. The Bobby Fuller Four 1984 93. Buster Poindexter July 7, 1987 94. Adolescents 1987 95. Tracy Chapman March 24, 1990 96. Samurai & Hardbartle 1990 97. Harvey Reid 1991 98. Andy Lee Lang 1991 99. Gregory Isaacs 1992 100. Theodis Ealey 1993 101. Sinéad O'Connor 1994 102. Don McMinn 1994 103. Lesley Schatz 1994 104. Piccadilly Six + One October 2, 1995 105. Spike an' Darrell 1995 106. Ira! 1995 107. Mac Benford & The Woodshed All-Stars January 30, 1996 108. Gary Glitter November 1996 109. The Walkabouts 1996 110. Paul & Margie 1996 111. Rob Lamothe 1996 112. Bachman-Turner Overdrive 1996 113. Kenny Bee 1997 114. Eric Burdon Brian Auger Band June 30, 1998 115. Henry McCullough November 1998 116. Sentenced 1998 117. EverEve 1999 118. Doc and Richard Watson 119. 1999 Don Angle 120. 1999 Snakefarm 1999  121. Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Tony Rice April 25, 2000 122. Carol Kidd 2000 123. 386 DX 2000 124. The Mystic Eyes January 2001 125. Monsieur Jeffrey Evans February 20, 2001 126. Jimmy Nail 2001 127. Noel Freidline Quintet February 19, 2002 128. Toto October 14, 2002 129. Muse October 2002 130. John Otway 2002 131. Sarah Brooks with Joe Beck 2002 132. John Hasbrouck 2002 133. Jet Jet Six February 24, 2003 134. Helmut Lotti September 22, 2003 135. Rock Nalle, Jørgen Krabbenhøft, Peter Belli, Sir Henry 2003 136. The Be Good Tanyas 2003 137. Rock Nalle & The Yankees 2004 138. Antoine Rocks June 28, 2005 139. Brand New Sin November 16, 2006 140. Declan December 1, 2006 141. Blues Support 2006 142. Kim Nalley 2006 143. The Bobby Young Project August 21, 2007 144. Walls of Jericho April 29, 2008 145. The Malchicks June 2008 146. E.G. Kight August 19, 2008 147. Russell Watson - The Voice November 17, 2008 148. Patti Littlefield, Mark Weaver 2008 149. Roman March 2, 2009 150. Manfred Mann's Earth Band November 2, 2009 151. Leo Giannetto's Jazz Project 2009 152. The Floorbirds August 10, 2010 153. Sandi Thom December 5, 2010 154. Colm Wilkinson 2010 155. Jerry Lawson & Talk of the Town 2010 156. Dick Annegarn February 7, 2011 157. Guy Davis May 17, 2011 158. Haley Reinhart June 28, 2011 159. Psycliq September 10, 2011 160. The Gaslight Anthem October 18, 2011 161. Dwight Pinkney & D. P. Band November 1, 2011 162. The White Buffalo with The Forest Rangers November 29, 2011 163. Battleme and The Forest Rangers with Katey Sagal November 29, 2011 164. Smoke Sellers 2011 165. Stagbriar September 18, 2012 166. The Techtonics September 2012 167. Lauren O'Connell October 29, 2012 168. Meshell Ndegeocello feat. Toshi Reagon October 2012 169. Bobby Bare 2012 170. Robert Lunn 2012 171. The Lonesome Ones January 22, 2013 172. Five Finger Death Punch November 19, 2013 173. Maurizio Abate 2014 174. Jello Biafra and the New Orleans Raunch and Soul All-Stars May 12, 2015 175. Dave Alvin and Phil Alvin September 2015 176. Eric Bibb and JJ Milteau November 6, 2015 177. Joan Baez with Richard Thompson and David Bromberg June 10, 2016

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