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Well, "The House of the Rising Sun" is a very old folk song. Dylan sang it on his first album. (Neither of these renditions are "covers", by the way. That isn't what "cover" means.) The problem with The Animals's version is that Eric chickens out and switches the sex of the protagonist which turns the lyric into nonsense. I saw The Animals two or three years ago. The keyboardist doubled on violin and was pretty good, but Eric lost his voice before he'd finished the first tune--and continued undaunted.
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