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Like many folk songs this is uncertain. Alan Price of "The Animals" has claimed that the song was originally a sixteenth-century English folk song about a soho brothel, and that English emigrants took the song to America where it was adapted to its later New Orleans setting.

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"House of the Rising Sun" is a folk song from the early 20th century. The authorship is unknown. The oldest known existing recording is by versatile Smoky Mountain artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster and was made in 1933.

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