Dagegen wirken die "beschlipsten" Wuschelkoepfe geradezu brutal.
Ja, die "Animals" singen eine männliche Version der Geschichte, während Joni Mitchell die Sicht einer betroffenen und resignierten Frau wiedergibt.
Ich habe zum besseren Vergleich den Beitrag #429 um Mitchells Textversion ergänzt.
Zur Entstehungsgeschichte des Traditionals fand ich:
Footnotes to House of the Rising Sun
This song was said to have been known by miners as early as 1905. The oldest published version of the lyrics is that printed by Robert Winslow Gordon in 1925, in a column "Old Songs That Men Have Sung" in Adventure magazine. The oldest known recording of the song, under the title "Rising Sun Blues", is by Appalachian artists Clarence "Tom" Ashley and Gwen Foster, who recorded it on September 6, 1933 on the Vocalion label