"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, also sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues", which 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.
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