Yeah, theirs is the version you hear all the time, but it's one of those traditional folk songs where no one's really sure who actually wrote it
. Not sure how accurate it is, but on the Covered Up page there's an amusing story of how when Bob Dylan started using Dave Van Ronk's arrangement, Van Ronk had to stop playing it live because people thought he was ripping off Bob Dylan, but then Bob Dylan had to stop playing it because people thought he was ripping off the Animals.
edited 18th Nov '11 2:37:28 PM by MikeK
Covering (even if in the same style), ripping off, same thing, right?
Also, ninja'd hard.
Insert witty and clever quip here. My page, as the database hates my handle.Yeah, it's a traditional - but we can safely say that in days of old, it sounded nothing like The Animals' version:
To the best of my knowledge, the Animals came up with the recognisable chord progression and melody which have been used in all later versions.
Mache dich, mein Herze, rein...

I've noticed that an amazingly small amount of people know who did this song. It was, of course, the Animals, proven by the very distinct vocals even ignoring all other factors. So why is it that people don't know who did it?
Mura: -flips the bird to veterinary science with one hand and Euclidean geometry with the other-