[Bob Quixote]

How can you not like "House of the Rising Sun?" The Animals' recording is one of my favorites. I know that's 20th century, but the song itself dates from long before.

[Wm Bach]

How can you not like "House of the Rising Sun?"

I love that song. I was trying, and failing to be humorous about people's annoyance with the ground base as it relates to Pachelbel's Canon, and I was looking around for other examples of the passacaglia form, for which "Rising Sun" is a classic example.

[Marysecretary]

I LOVE House of the Rising Sun! I did it at a talent show once years ago. You can also sing the words to Amazing Grace to that tune. It's very moving.