October 4, 2023 mountain bike workout down the Pikes Peak Greenway trail to Bradley Road then up to the Bluestem Prairie Open Space and around the reservoir then back on Las Vegas.
The song is “House of the Rising Sun” an old English traditional song of sailors, covered in 1964 by Eric Burdon and “The Animals”.
It was the first song I learned in standard tuning after learning some chords on my father’s guitar when I tuned it to open “D” (double drop “D” tuning) where I could just bar each chord.
It’s a simple 4 chords but the pick/strum is the hard part.
The song was first collected in Appalachia in the 1930s, but probably has its roots in traditional English folk song.
Probably a “broadside ballad” from the 16th-19th centuries, where woodcuts were printed on a single sheet of paper with bawdy barroom songs and tails.
Also called “Rising Sun Blues”, “She was a Rum One”, and a million more ve4rses and song titles.
There was a pub in Lowestoft England called The Rising Sun becasue the town is the most easterly settlement in the UK (hence “rising sun”).
Wiki:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun
The video contains a Pronghorn buck, the storms after my last ride on Monday, new snow on the Peak, and bus touring in Manitou Springs.
Filmed with a GoPro Hero 8 and iPhone 14 pro max.