Nina Simone - The House Of The Rising Sun - текст песни, слова, перевод, видео

“The House of the Rising Sun” (the House of the Rising Sun) is a folk American song, ballad; Sometimes it is also called the “Blues of the Rising Sun” (English Rising Sun Blues). The song takes place in New Orleans. Performed by the British group The Animals, this song occupied the first lines of the hit parades of both the USA and Great Britain in 1964. The version of The Animals was included (under No. 122) on the list of 500 best songs of all times of Rolling Stone (2004).

There are many options for songs in which the plot varies significantly. In all versions, the hero tells how he destroyed his life in the house of the rising sun, and warns against such a fate; However, in different versions, this is a woman (including in the original folklore version), then a man (including in the version of The Animals). Some understand the house of the rising sun as a brothel, others as a prison, others like a tavern or a gambling house. It is also unknown that a real or fictional building in New Orleans is talking. In the city, at different times, in the 19th century there were two establishments with that name, but both times not long, and nothing is known about their bad reputation. Neither the other building has been preserved.

The well -known folklorist and Blueberry collector Alan Lomax wrote in 1941 that the words of this song (to the music of the traditional English ballad) were written by two inhabitants of Kentukka - Georgia Turner and Bert Martin. There are other versions of the origin of the song. The first known entry dates back to 1934. The song was performed by many bluesmen of the 1930s-1940s (including in one of the options of Lidbelli in the recording made shortly before the death), and then a huge number of rock and pop musicians of the second half of the XX-the beginning XXI century. The most fame was the version of The Animals, although two years earlier this hit was recorded by Bob Dylan (1962), whose version of The Animals arranged (in turn, Dylan “borrowed” the arrangement from Dave Van Ronka).