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I met him one day in...
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the green pastures of Harvard University.
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I have a habit I picked up
someplace along the way.
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Whatever works for me,
not to give that away...
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so easily, you know.
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Baby, let me follow you down
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Baby, let me follow you down
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Well, I'll do anything
in this God almighty world
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If you just let me follow you down
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When I did make that first record...
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I used songs which I just knew
but I hadn't really performed them a lot.
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I wanted just to record stuff
that was off the top of my head...
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and see what would happen.
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There is a house
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down in New Orleans
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They call The Rising Sun
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And it's been the ruin
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of many a poor girl
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And me, oh, God, I'm one
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The House of the Rising Sun
is on that record.
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I'd never done that song before...
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but I heard it every night
'cause Van Ronk would do it.
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So I thought he was really on to something
with the song, so I just recorded it.
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Bobby picked up the chord changes...
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for the song from me.
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It really altered the song considerably,
although the lyric was...
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pretty much the straight
House of the Rising Sun lyric...
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and so was the melody.
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And when he was doing,
I guess it was his first album...
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he asked me if I would mind...
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if he recorded my version
of House of the Rising Sun.
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And I had some plans to record it.
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So I said, "Well, gee, Bob,
I'd rather you didn't...