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Rising Sun Blues - Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson



     
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There is a house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of a many poor boy
And me, oh God, for oneThen fill the glasses to the brim
Let the drinks go merrily around
And we'll drink to the health of a rounder poor boy
Who goes from town to townThe only thing that a rounder needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunkNow boys, don't believe what a girl tells you
Though her eyes be blue or brown
Unless she's on some scaffold high
Saying, "Boys, I can't come down"Go tell my youngest brother
Not to do the things I've done
But to shun that house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising SunI'm going back, back to New Orleans
For my race is nearly run
Gonna spend the rest of my wicked life

Beneath that Rising Sun

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When Folkways sought in 1960 to return banjo man Ashley to the public eye, he brought along his neighbor Watson, a blind, flat-picking guitarist then playing in an electric rockabilly band. To say that Doc and his easy-going grace stole the show would be an understatement. It wasn’t just his crystal-clear picking style that so astonished, but also the encyclopedic bag of licks that enabled Doc to seemingly play all night without repeating any, and the equally infinite number of traditional songs he carried in his head. From Ashley’s calling-card “The Coo Coo Bird” to Watson’s solo “Sittin’ on Top of the World,” these are among the most essential sides of the folk revival.

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Clarence Ashley & Doc Watson