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House of the Drowning Sun

I wrote this in 2006 at Meadowlark Music Camp in Maine. It’s a slightly modified version of “House of the Rising Sun”, with the focus on the New Orleans flood.

  • Kee Hinckley – guitar, vocals
  • Anna Grosslein – flute
  • Shireen Hinckley – fiddle, vocals
  • Lyle Hawthorne – lead fiddle
  • Meadowlark attendees – chorus

Many thanks to Cindy Kallet and the Arrangements class for all their assistance.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7UBfM2yYmw

House of the Drowning Sun

Kee Hinckley

Verses

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

It’s been the ruin of many a poor boy

And Lord I know I’m one My mother was a tailor

Sewed my new blue jeans

My father was a working man

Down in New Orleans

My father worked hard all his life

Building up our dreams

Draining swamps and cutting trees

That protected New Orleans

Mothers’ warn your children

Not to do the things we have done

Burning fields and market yields

Have drowned the Rising Sun

I’ve got one foot in the ocean

The other it’s on the land

I can’t go back to New Orleans

There’s no place left to stand

There was a house in New Orleans

They called the Rising Sun

It’s been the ruin of many a poor boy

And Lord I know I’m one

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Originally posted at: https://technosocial.com/2019/07/house-of-the-drowning-sun/