Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Animals. Show all posts

Monday, January 26, 2009

፨ ANIMALS, House of the Rising Sun 2005

Wow 40 over years later, their image sure have to change without much choice whatsoever, with longer locks of hair and the body grown sideways particularly for Eric Burdon. They have changed the tempo, added in some latest musical gadgets and lastly twisted the lyrics a bit trying to be naughty which goes like this:

"Oh Mama tell your favorite children
Don't be a fool like me no no no,
Spend your lives in a traveling rock & roll band,
Traveling from hotels! motels! yeah yeah yeah....
There is a house in New Orleans,
They call the Rising Sun..."

(The Original)
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun...


፨ ANIMALS, House of the Rising Sun 1964

This is the original version of the song in 1964 as compared to Year 2005. What a hit, those were the days when we used to strum the guitar, especially the intro at the starting but would always struggle in catching up with Eric Burdon, the lead singer with his all-time great blues/rock solid voice. I am not sure about the rest but I always learned something from song lyrics just like this song at the least I know New Orleans existed then and I do have a few hand written song books which helped me quite a lot in my spelling.