House of the Risin' Sun

[Verse 1]

There is a house in New Orleans,

They call the "Rising Sun",

It's been the ruin of many a poor boy,

And God, I know, I'm one

[Verse 2]

My mother was a tailor

She sewed my new blue jeans

My father was a gambling man,

Down in New Orleans.

[Verse 3]

Now the only thing a gambler needs

Is a suitcase and a trunk

And the only time, he's satisfied,

Is when he's on a drunk

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[Verse 4]

O, mother, tell your children

Not to do what I have done

Spend your lives in sin and misery

In the House of Rising Sun

[Verse 5]

Well, I've got one foot on the platform (organ plays F7)

The other foot on the train (organ: E7)

I'm going back to New Orleans (organ: F7)

To wear that ball and chain

[Verse 6]

Well, there is a house in New Orleans

They call the "Rising Sun"

And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

And God, I know, I'm one

[Coda]

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