![]() The lyrics appear in LOMAX’s 1941 book “Our Singing Country.” ![]() ![]() This particular version, entitled “The Rising Sun Blues”, was recorded by him on September 15th, 1937, and credited to Georgia TURNER of Middlesboro, Kentucky and “other stanzas” to Bert MARTIN of Manchester, Kentucky. They were collected by Alan LOMAX, the famous musicologist, on one of his extremely important field-recording trips to the Southern States of America. ![]() If you are familiar with the Animals 1964 hit version of the “House of the Rising Sun,” you may not be familiar with the above set of lyrics. ![]()
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