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True meaning of a classic song "House of the Rising Sun"?


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It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave.

 

It's just a metaphor.

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It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave.

 

It's just a metaphor.

 

Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans.

 

http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/

more specifically....asian whore house...hence the reference of the 'rising sun'.
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It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave.

 

It's just a metaphor.

 

Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans.

 

http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/

 

Oh yeah, that's there too. But the metaphor stays the same. Not a difficult song to analyze, certainly not compared to the stuff Dylan was writing at that time.

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It's very simple. It's about a man who's become addicted to gambling, just like his father, and the "house of the rising sun," being the gambling house, controls him like a slave.

 

It's just a metaphor.

 

Some people think it's about a whore house in New Orleans.

 

http://songmeanings....ngs/view/15599/

 

Oh yeah, that's there too. But the metaphor stays the same. Not a difficult song to analyze, certainly not compared to the stuff Dylan was writing at that time.

 

It's a reworking of a very old folk song, though, so not contemporary to Dylan's work. It's gone through so many changes that it could be originally about many things- all though in all cases it certainly is about being damned by some form of vice.

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