"Mothers, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in misery
In the house of the rising sun."

Easiest song to learn I think.

Frijid Pink version
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/f/frijid_pink/house_of_the_rising_sun_tab.htm
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Guitar noise lesson on House of the Rising Sun by The Animals
http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/house-of-the-rising-sun/

The Frijid Pink version is intermediate due to the lead breaks, and the intro.

The Animals version is pretty straight forward. For timing listen to the original version. Then figure out what 6/8 timing really means; each 8th note gets a beat. So that means 6 beets per measure and each one is an 8th note. To see this watch the original version and count each time the lead guitar hits a note.

Below is an explanation of The Animals version.

The guitar part is a Arpeggio. The wiki describes a Bach arpeggio to be in 6/8 timing with 6 8th notes in a measure. Which is exactly the way The Animals have the lead guitar on this song.

You can think of this count as 1,2,3,4,5,6 and then 6,5,4,3,2,1 repeat.

These are the first 4 bars of the song as tabbed by an Unregistered user at www.ultimate-guitar.com

As you can see there is an extra note in this tabulation, and it is in 7/8 timing. Which is incorrect.
INTRO
Am C
E---------------0------------------------------------0-----------
B-----------1--------1-------------------------1--------1--------
G--------2----------------2--------------0-----------------0-----
D-----2-------------------------------2--------------------------
A--0------------------------------3------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

E------------2---2--------------------------------1---1----------
B---------3----------3-----------------------1------------1------
G-----2------------------2---------------2--------------------2--
D--0---------------------------------3---------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------
http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/a/animals/house_of_the_rising_sun_tab.htm

This version can be found in the link to Guitar Noise, and is the most correct. Written By: David Hodge.
http://www.guitarnoise.com/lesson/house-of-the-rising-sun/
Am C
E---------------0------------------------------------0-----------
B--------------------1----------------------------------1--------
G--------2----------------2--------------0-----------------0-----
D-----2-------------------------------2--------------------------
A--0------------------------------3------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

E----------------0------------------------------------0----------
B--------0-----------1-----------------------0------------1------
G-----2------------------2---------------2--------------------2--
D--3---------------------------------3---------------------------
A----------------------------------------------------------------
E----------------------------------------------------------------

http://www.ultimate-guitar.com/tabs/a/animals/house_of_the_rising_sun_tab.htm

Thanks, man.

In reply to this comment by geo321:
*promote

I know. It's my favorite song to hear live by a good bar house band.>> ^eric3579:
This song rocks on so many levels.

All better now, thanks. I didn't use the embed you suggested, the one I used is the same footage with "Go to Hell" tacked on to the end.

In reply to this comment by EndAll:
Fix - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FjcJjLUgZ08

Though I'm no stranger to rock and roll, I was unable to recognize all the riffs, so I copy/pasted the below list from the Brodie Cumming web site for reference:

1 Stairway To Heaven - Led Zeppelin
2 Smoke on the Water - Deep Purple
3 Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns & Roses
4 Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
5 Layla - Eric Clapton
6 Black Magic Woman - Santana
7 No More Mr. Nice Guy - Alice Cooper
8 Beat It - Michael Jackson
9 Crazy Train - Ozzy Osbourne
10 Dr. Feelgood - Motely Crue
11 Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana
12 Sweet Home Alabama - Lynyrd Skynyrd
13 Cowboys From Hell - Pantera
14 Enter Sandman - Metallica
15 Mister Sandman - Chet Atkins
16 One Step Closer - Linkin Park
17 Back In Black - AC/DC
18 Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix
19 Black Dog - Led Zeppelin
20 Crazy On You - Heart
21 Immigrant Song - Led Zeppelin
22 Bulls On Parade - Rage Against the Machine
23 Unchained - Van Halen
24 Bad To The Bone - George Thorogood
25 Johnny B. Goode - Chuck Berry
26 Surfing with the Alien - Joe Satriani
27 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
28 Cult Of Personality - Living Colour
29 Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
30 Sunshine of your Love - Cream
31 Runnin' with the Devil - Van Halen
32 Hells Bells - AC/DC
33 Foxy Lady - Jimi Hendrix
34 Frankenstein - The Edgar Winter Group
35 Aqualung - Jethro Tull
36 In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida - Iron Butterfly
37 Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas
38 (Don't Fear) The Reaper - Blue Oyster Cult
39 Cemetary Gates - Pantera
40 Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love - Van Halen
41 Walk This Way - Aerosmith
42 Tonight 'm Gonna Rock You (Tonight) - Spinal Tap
43 Life in the Fast Lane - Eagles
44 Come As You Are - Nirvana
45 Zero - Smashing Pumpkins
46 Nothin' But A Good Time - Poison
47 Round n Round - Ratt
48 It's Not Love - Dokken
49 Rock and Roll, Hoochie Koo - Rick Derringer
50 Norwegian Wood - Beatles
51 Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chili Peppers
52 Kashmir - Led Zeppelin
53 Train Kept A-Rolling - The Yardbirds
54 Blackbird - Beatles
55 Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
56 All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
57 Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
58 Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
59 Breaking The Law - Judas Priest
60 King of the Hill Theme - Brian David Blush/Roger Meade Clyne
61 All Right Now - Free
62 Are You Gonna Go My Way - Lenny Kravitz
63 When I Come Around - Green Day
64 Trilogy Suite Op.5 - Yngwie Malmsteen
65 Born To Run - Bruce Springsteen
66 Pretty Woman - Roy Orbison
67 Day Tripper - Beatles
68 Panama - Van Halen
69 Born To Be Wild - Steppenwolf
70 More Than A Feeling - Boston
71 Cat Scratch Fever - Ted Nugent
72 Bark At The Moon - Ozzy Osbourne
73 Hair Of The Dog - Nazareth
74 No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne
75 Just A Girl - No Doubt
76 Iron Man - Black Sabbath
77 Sweet Emotion - Aerosmith
78 Pride And Joy - Stevie Ray Vaughn
79 Sharp Dressed Man - ZZ Top
80 Machine Head - Bush
81 Black Or White - Michael Jackson
82 Sultans Of Swing - Dire Straits
83 Hey Joe - Jimi Hendrix
84 Whole Lotta Love - Led Zeppelin
85 10 Years Gone - Led Zeppelin
86 Wild Thing - The Troggs
87 Owner Of A Lonely Heart - Yes
88 Magic Carpet Ride - Steppenwolf
89 I Love Rock N ' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
90 Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones
91 La Bamba - Los Lobos
92 China Grove - Doobie Brothers
93 You Really Got Me - Van Halen
94 Wipe Out - The Surfaris
95 House Of The Rising Sun - The Animals
96 Dust In The Wind - Kansas
97 Rhiannon - Fleetwood Mac
98 Susie Q - Creedence Clearwater Revival
99 Voodoo Child - Jimi Hendrix
100 Eruption - Van Halen

Thank you very MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!

In reply to this comment by Ornthoron:
Better quality version here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hg7jzi9JAkw

Thanks, bro.



In reply to this comment by rasch187:
*dead, working embed here: http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x27wf7_animals-house-of-the-rising-sun_music

Had to upvote the Rising sun reference.

*rocknroll
http://www.videosift.com/video/The-Animals-House-of-the-Rising-Sun

Glad to find that someone had posted House of the Rising Sun, but that karaoke version was really annoying If you're interested, here's the same clip karaoke free:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBGXwX-TdTY