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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 9:11pmSanction this postReply
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I hate that song.

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Tuesday, September 20, 2005 - 9:13pmSanction this postReply
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You guys are carbon-dating yourselves, I don't even know that song. :)

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 1:32amSanction this postReply
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Linz is too old for carbon dating to be effective. Methods involving obsidian have yielded relatively consistent results, but scientists have still been unable to reduce the margin of error below about +/- one thousand years.

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 1:36amSanction this postReply
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You cheeky bitch!

You're a doomed Bissell-Bitch!

There is a house in Noo Orleans
They call The Rising Sun
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And boy, I know, I'm one


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:26amSanction this postReply
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Just to be a pedant, "House of the rising sun" was initially a turn of the century American folk song, the melody borrowed from an old English folk song.

The modern arrangement was first done by Bob Dylan in 1962 and then later the Animals.

"Rising Sun" was a euphemism often used for brothel.

How insensitive Linz, to joke about such tragedy, tut...tut!!! ;-)


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 8:06amSanction this postReply
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"Rising Sun" is a euphemism for an opium den. How do you get ruined in a brothel? When you can't do it any more or run out of money you leave. Now, can we have a rational discussion about this or is someone going to get all emotional?

--Brant


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 12:27pmSanction this postReply
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Brant...opium den in the US?

More haste, less speed ;-)

There was gender change in the song.

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The House of the Rising Sun
An American folk song.

Like many classic folk ballads, the authorship of House of the Rising Sun, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues", is dubious. Folklorist Alan Lomax, author of the seminal 1941 songbook Our Singing Country, wrote that the melody was taken from a traditional English ballad and the lyrics written by a pair of Kentuckians named Georgia Turner and Bert Martin. Other scholars have proposed different explanations, although Lomax's is generally considered most plausible.

In the early 20th century, the phrase "Rising Sun" was often used as a euphemism for a brothel or house of prostitution, and it isn't known whether or not the house described in the lyrics is an actual or fictitious place.

The traditional lyrics, as recorded by Lomax, are as follows:

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor girl,
and me, O God, for one.
If I had listened what Mamma said,
I'd 'a' been at home today.
Being so young and foolish, poor boy,
let a rambler lead me astray.

Go tell my baby sister
never do like I have done
to shun that house in New Orleans
they call the Rising Sun.
My mother she's a tailor;
she sold those new blue jeans.
My sweetheart, he's a drunkard, Lord, Lord,
drinks down in New Orleans.

The only thing a drunkard needs
is a suitcase and a trunk.
The only time he's satisfied
is when he's on a drunk.
Fills his glasses to the brim,
passes them around
only pleasure he gets out of life
is hoboin' from town to town.

One foot is on the platform
and the other one on the train.
I'm going back to New Orleans
to wear that ball and chain.
Going back to New Orleans,
my race is almost run.
Going back to spend the rest of my days
beneath that Rising Sun.

The best-known cover of the song is by The Animals, who added ambiguity to the lyrics by changing the gender of the singer. Other artists to cover the song include Woody Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Pink Floyd, Peter, Paul and Mary, Dolly Parton and Johnny Hallyday.


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 12:55pmSanction this postReply
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Marcus, now you've gone all empirical, factual and rational on me. You'd think a science leader would know how to wrap his text.:-(phooey!)

--Brant


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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 5:30pmSanction this postReply
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Ok, if we're gonna get technical...Pink Floyd never did a cover of the song. Floydian that I am, I would have known...however, it seems the rumour comes down to mistake identity, it was Frigid Pink who did the cover.

http://www.allfloyd.com/HyperNews/get/PinkFloyd/Forum/1033.html

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Wednesday, September 21, 2005 - 10:50pmSanction this postReply
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Now how the hell would you expect *me* to know any of *that*?! :-)

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Thursday, September 22, 2005 - 5:43amSanction this postReply
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Don't sweat it, Linz, the only rock song people need to know righ now, with ANOTHER hurricane on the way is "When the Levee Breaks." (Because I keep reading "we're praying that it won't be as bad"...don't pray, just get out!)

If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break,
If it keeps on rainin’, levee’s goin’ to break,
When the levee breaks I’ll have no place to stay.
Mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Lord, mean old levee taught me to weep and moan,
Got what it takes to make a mountain man leave his home,
Oh, well, oh, well, oh, well.
Don’t it make you feel bad
When you’re tryin’ to find your way home,
You don’t know which way to go?
If you’re goin’ down south
They go no work to do,
If you don’t know about Chicago.
Cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
Now, cryin’ won’t help you, prayin’ won’t do you no good,
When the levee breaks, mama, you got to move.
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
All last night sat on the levee and moaned,
Thinkin’ ’bout me baby and my happy home.
Going, go’n’ to Chicago,
Go’n’ to Chicago,
Sorry but I can’t take you.
Going down, going down now, going down.

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Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 1:24amSanction this postReply
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"Drove my Chevy to the levee and the damn thing sank...." 

(With apologies to the writers of "Bye-Bye Miss American Pie")


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Saturday, September 24, 2005 - 1:39amSanction this postReply
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This just in ... Bush announces $500 billion "levee levy" to fund repairs of damaged levees.

... Sorry, that was really lame, I'll stop trying now.


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