# "House of the Rising Sun"

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-sun/59173>\
**Category:** Cecil's Columns/Staff Reports\
**Created:** [March 23, 2001, 5:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-sun/59173 "2001-03-23T17:21:23Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b2d939/32.png) [@C\_K\_Dexter\_Haven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/C_K_Dexter_Haven)\
**Post date:** [April 3, 2001, 1:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-sun/59173/21 "2001-04-03T13:10:04Z")

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So cleaned, sagitta, thanks for the post. Cracked me up.

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**Author:** ![drasaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/65b543/32.png) [@drasaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drasaid)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 12:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-sun/59173/22 "2001-04-05T00:27:06Z")

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I live in New Orleans, and I can tell you that not only were there LOTS of “fancy houses” around, but that they were designed and built for the purpose. I know a building on Baronne Street which was renovated for an accounting firm. They could’nt believe how suited it was to their purposes; nice small rooms just the right size for individual offices. One of the accountants slipped over to the assessor’s office in City Hall to check on the history of the property; the members of the firm nearly killed themselves laughning when they found out it was designed (and used) as a brothel. It is around four or five stories high; not a small building now and pretty big for its time. Well built too; it is still a comfortable place to work. A big blue building on the lake side of Baronne, on the last block before Howard Avenue going away from Canal.

I don’t know if a web search would find it, but last time I looked under “escort services” in the Yellow Pages in New Orleans there were SEVERAL Rising Suns listed.

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**Author:** ![pepperlandgirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f17d59/32.png) [@pepperlandgirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pepperlandgirl)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2001, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/house-of-the-rising-sun/59173/23 "2001-04-05T03:47:37Z")

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> [@](#):
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> I always heard it as “she sewed those new blue jeans”. Huh.

You are right DDG. The lyrics in the article:

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> My mother she’s a tailor;  
> she sold those new blue jeans.  
> My sweetheart, he’s a drunkard, Lord, Lord,  
> drinks down in New Orleans.

In the Animals’ version it goes

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> My mother was a tailor  
> She sewed my new blue jeans  
> My father is a gambling man  
> Down in New Orleans

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