Mp3s by all the usual suspects: Huddie 'Lead Belly' Ledbetter, Dave van Ronk, Bob Dylan, The Animals. Take your pick. Herein are 250 versions of House of the Rising Sun. I haven't tried the French pop singer Johnny Hallyday's German Das Alte Haus in New Orleans, but the long, slow, silky rendition (in English) by Nina Simone is a keeper. Leslie West, too (whatever happened to him?). The drug-fuelled Beatles is worth a crack. So is Eric Burdon -- in performance and throwing a wobbly in 1990. Sadly, however, there is no version among the 250 in Cantonese. It exists, the Cantonese version... but it's just not there. Ah, well, keep looking.
Downloads here. A tad slow, but... hey! While waiting, there are the lyrics to consider.
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