Chords for The Animals/Eric Burdon/House of the Rising Sun (Clip, BBC Documentary, November 6, 2015 ♥♫

once a month and they took all the latest [G] songs and brought them back [Em] to England and just [F] remade them.
They were almost the same [Bb] song.
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But by the 60s, something was stirring.
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A new [N] generation of British bands started covering rock and roll, rhythm and blues, [Ab] even folk.
Songs from outside the American pop mainstream.
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The British [A] invasion began with American songs. _ _ _ _
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[C] They call the rising [E] sun.
_ Yeah, sounds good.
[A] Anything _
[C] the road [D] instantly conjures up [F] another place in [A] time. _
[E] I know.
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[C] In 1964, [D] the Animals topped the [F] charts in Britain with a cover [Am] version of House of the [E] Rising Sun.
[A] It sounded unlike anything [Am] ever heard before [E] from a British band.
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Tell your [D] children.
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think [E] _ _ the mere fact that it was [Am] an English accent and [C] the fact it was a slightly dodgy subject,
and [D] up to then, the [F] radio was always bad, anything [Ab] which could be [Am] anything [C] near about a prostitute or even [D] sex.
I [F] think that hooked everybody.
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_ [Am] The _ _ [C]
Animals were [D] from Newcastle, not [F] New Orleans.
A [Am] place as far away to them [E] as the moon.
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[Am] Yet somehow they brought [C] something dangerous out [D] of a cautionary folk tale [F] about loose living.
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generations, [Abm] House of the Rising Sun had been sung across [Gbm] America and the [E] song was constantly changing. _ _ _ _
They _ _ are [A] in New [E] Orleans.
[A] Its path to [Em] Newcastle [Cm] began in 1937 [E]
when the young song collector Alan Lomax visited Kentucky.
[B] _ _ [Bb] Whilst there, he met a miner's daughter named Georgia Turner and recorded her singing a song she'd grown up with.
_ The colour of _ _ _ the _ sea_
[Ab] _ _ _ He logged it as Rising Sun Blues. _
You listen to it and it is very, very clearly the song House of the Rising Sun.
The tune is different, [C] but you have this 15-year-old ethereal voice singing at you from 1937,
these lyrics that we're now all so familiar with. _
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[F] 1950s, Georgia [Am] Turner's version had entered the repertoire [E] of every self-respecting American [Bb] folk [Am] musician.
_ But it lacked a standard [C] arrangement [D] [Am] until the arrival of the debut album [E] by Bob Dylan.
[Am] There is [C] a house [Ab] down in New _ _
[Fm] _ [F] _ _ [A] Orleans_
The House of the Rising Sun has been [G] open to [E] many different permutations.
And this is true of many folk [Cm] songs if they've come from an oral tradition.
_ [Gm] Bob _ Dylan's the [N] first person to really nail that melody and to nail down some definitive chords.
[Am] _ _ He's [C] playing it in A minor.
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[F] His recording of it is a blank slate [Am] effectively [F] because it's just a vocal [C] and guitar.
So that leaves the door wide open for the animals to do something quite [A] radical.
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[D] The animals took House [F] of the Rising Sun into the [A] studio one morning [E] in May _ [Em] 1964.
[A] _ [E] There was one engineer there [A] and when Hilton was [C] rocking out to do the intro,
[D] he said, no, [F] no, no, you can't do that, man, it's [A] distorting.
And we're going, [E] that's what we want, _ [A] distortion.
_ [E] _ _ [A] There [Am] is [C] a house [D] in New [F] Orleans_
They plug in, [A] they make it a dark [C] electric sound.
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_ The feel is something a lot more [A] menacing and that gives it [C] a massive excitement. _
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[A] _ _ You hear [E] Eric Burden's voice.
[Am] It contains all of the misery of the blues.
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You [C] _ _ [D] feel emotion and [F] you feel the pull [Am] of sin.
[C] You feel the pull of [E]
something that you know is not good for you,
[Am] but you're going to do it anyway.
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[Am] _ _ [C] Going electric added a [D] further element to the song.
[F] The giddy sound of [Am] Alan Price's organ.
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_ [Am] _ _ [C] One of my favorite movies [D] of the time was called [F] Walk on the Wild Side.
And the soundtrack was by Jimmy Smith and [Bb] the keyboard [F] was just phenomenal. _
_ [Cm] _ [B] _ [Fm] And I played it to Alan and I said, [F] this is what you've got to [A] do.
End of verse [F] three, stop and go into it. _ _
To _ _ _ push the [Am] whole thing along.
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[Am] I hear that organ and I think, okay, [C] the red light district of New [D] Orleans.
I think of the [F] people that they used to call professors [A] who played the piano in the [E] bravos. _
_ [Am] _ The [C] keyboard wakes you up, [D] set you on fire.
[F] You know, wow, [Am] what's all this about?
Sex for sale?
Oh my God.
[C] This is, you [D] know, the devil himself at work.
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[E] After _ _ [Am] _ _
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_ recording Rise and Sun and performing, right,
I'd be backstage and I'd have a girl on each [Bb] arm.
[G] And I think, wow, this [Fm] is great.
_ _ _ _ [D] The animals unleashed something in themselves and their audience [Dm] with the song.
_ [Gb] And it made [Eb] them stuns.
[Ab] Here they are, the [Gb] animals, [A] Britain's hottest new rock and roll export.
And when they took it back to America,
they ignited a generation of [Bb] teenagers who plugged into the song's dangerous undercurrents.
To [Gb] the number one spot on both the US [F] and British pop charts.
[Db] Everything British was now [G] beautiful.
[N] _ _ _ Led _ _ by _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [A] the Beatles and the Rolling Stones,
the British invasion saw a stream of bands re-exporting American songs back across the
Atlantic.
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_ [A] It proved irresistible to US [Bb] teenagers hungry [A] for the new sound.
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