House Of The Rising Sun

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This bluesy folk song from good ol' New Orleans, Louisiana tells the assumed story of a brothel and the consequences of it. This song gets you into a trance with its melodic rhythm and bluesy and jazzed up music and hypnotic organ accompaniment, this sweet tune will take your imagination back to those old days in New Orleans with its poetic and melancholic lyrics.

Lyrics:
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Risin' Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy.
In God, I know I'm one.

My mother was a tailor.
She sewed my new blue jeans.
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans.

Now, the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trump
And the only time that he's satisfied
Is when he's all a-drunk.

Oh, Mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done.
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the house of the risin' sun.

Well, I've got one foot on the platform.
The other foot on the train.
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain.

Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Risin' Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy.
In God, I know I'm one.

La Chanson Du Jour/ The Song Of The Day: Arcade Fire - Haiti

This is probably the most heartfelt song I have seen written in recent times, an elegy sung by Régine Chassagne(one of the founding members of the group Arcade Fire) of her once beautiful homeland,from which she was driven out during the reign of Haiti's exiled leader Jean-Claude Duvalier.

I like the live version of this song best because its seems to portray the raw emotion, the sadness, anger, frustration in which this song was penned.

LYRICS:

Haïti, mon pays,
wounded mother I'll never see.
Ma famille set me free.
Throw my ashes into the sea.

Mes cousins jamais nés
hantent les nuits de Duvalier.
Rien n'arrete nos esprits.
Guns can't kill what soldiers can't see.

In the forest we lie hiding,
unmarked graves where flowers grow.
Hear the soldiers angry yelling,
in the river we will go.

Tous les morts-nés forment une armée,
soon we will reclaim the earth.
All the tears and all the bodies
bring about our second birth.

Haïti, never free,
n'aie pas peur de sonner l'alarme.
Tes enfants sont partis,
In those days their blood was still warm


Original album version

Weeds returns

So it's that time of the year again, the return of the 6th season of the Showtime Original series Weeds. One of the most epic shows ever to grace television. And it's back with a bang with a murder and running from the law at the focus of this seasons plot.

Make sure to set your DVR's or TIVO and catch the season premiere of Weeds this August 16 at 10pm EST.

Also catch the series premiere of Showtime's newest dramedy The Big C