'If you go to Lowestoft, and ask for The Rising Sun, In 1953, Lomax met Harry Cox, an English farm labourer known for his impressive folk song repertoire, who knew a song called 'She was a Rum One' ( Roud 17938) with two possible opening verses, one beginning Lomax also noted that 'Rising Sun' was the name of a bawdy house in two traditional English songs, and a name for English pubs, and proposed that the location of the house was then relocated from England to the US by White Southern performers. The folk song collector Alan Lomax suggested that the melody might be related to a 17th-century folk song, 'Lord Barnard and Little Musgrave', also known as ' Matty Groves', but a survey by Bertrand Bronson showed no clear relationship between the two songs. Musicologists say that it is based on the tradition of broadside ballads, and thematically it has some resemblance to the 16th-century ballad ' The Unfortunate Rake', yet there is no evidence suggesting that there is any direct relation. Like most folk songs, 'The House of the Rising Sun' is of uncertain authorship.
7.1.1 Johnny Hallyday version (in French).1.3 Early commercial folk and blues releases.
