1:04:01
of many a poor girl
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And me, oh, God, I'm one
1:04:10
The House of the Rising Sun
is on that record.
1:04:12
I'd never done that song before...
1:04:13
but I heard it every night
'cause Van Ronk would do it.
1:04:16
So I thought he was really on to something
with the song, so I just recorded it.
1:04:21
Bobby picked up the chord changes...
1:04:25
for the song from me.
1:04:29
It really altered the song considerably,
although the lyric was...
1:04:35
pretty much the straight
House of the Rising Sun lyric...
1:04:38
and so was the melody.
1:04:40
And when he was doing,
I guess it was his first album...
1:04:45
he asked me if I would mind...
1:04:49
if he recorded my version
of House of the Rising Sun.
1:04:54
And I had some plans to record it.
1:04:57
So I said, "Well, gee, Bob,
I'd rather you didn't...
1:05:00
"because I'm gonna record it myself soon".
1:05:04
And Bobby said, "Oh-oh".
1:05:08
The mystery of being in a recording studio
did something to me...
1:05:12
and those are the songs that came out.
1:05:13
Now the only thing
1:05:17
a gambler needs
1:05:20
is a suitcase and a trunk
1:05:27
After he recorded it,
I had to stop singing the song...
1:05:30
because people were constantly...
1:05:34
accusing me of having got the song
from Bobby's record.
1:05:38
Now that was very, very annoying.
1:05:43
But I couldn't blame that on him
and I didn't.
1:05:46
The whole thing was a tempest in a teapot.
1:05:48
Later on, when Eric Burdon and the Animals
picked the song up from Bobby...
1:05:54
and recorded it, Bobby told me
that he had had to drop the song...
1:05:57
because everybody was accusing him
of ripping it off of Eric Burdon!