Verse 1
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There is a house in New Orleans 
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They call the "Rising Sun" 
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy 
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And God, I know, I'm one                
  
  
Verse 2
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My mother was a tailor (organ: F7) 
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She sewed my new blue jeans  
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My father was a gambling man 
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Down in New Orleans.          
  
  
Verse 3
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Now the only thing a gambler needs  
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Is a suitcase and a trunk  
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And the only time, he's satisfied, 
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Is when he's on a drunk              
  
  
Verse 4
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Oh, mother, tell your children  
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Not to do what I have done 
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Spend your lives in sin and misery 
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In the House of Rising Sun               
  
  
Verse 5
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Well, I got one foot on the platform  
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The other foot on the train 
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I'm going back to New Orleans  
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To wear that ball and chain              
  
  
Verse 6
            Am   C        D           F 
Well, there is a house in New Orleans  
     Am        C      E     E 
They call the "Rising Sun"  
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy 
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And God, I know, I'm one