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“The House of the Rising Sun” is a traditional folk song.
Also called “House of the Rising Sun” or occasionally “Rising Sun Blues”,
it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans.
The most successful commercial version was recorded
by the English rock group The Animals in 1964,
which was a number one hit in the United Kingdom, United States,
Sweden, Finland and Canada.
