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House of the Rising Sun Technique
Great lyrics move us like the world's best poems. Take a close-up look at the art.
Music
While the guitar riff at the beginning of "House of the Rising Sun" may come first to mind when you think of the 1964 classic, the musical high point is really when Alan Price's organ takes the sta...
Setting
Since the song talks about the "House of the Rising Sun" being "down in New Orleans," we can infer that the singer of this song is somewhere up from New Orleans—somewhere a little farther north....