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Genre: Folk

Harp Type: Diatonic

Skill: Any

House Of The Rising Sun (

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There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.

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And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy and God, I know I’m one.

My mother was a tailor sewed my new blue jeans.
My father was a gamblin’ man down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he’ll be satisfied, is when he’s down and drunk.

Oh mother tell your children not to do what I have done.
Spend your lives in sin and misery, in the house of the rising sun.

I’ve got one foot on the platform. The oth’r foot on the train.
I’m goin’ back to New Orleans, to wear that ball and chain.

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.

Lyrics

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
Dear God, I know I was one
My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new blue jeans
And my father was a gamblin’ man
Way down in New Orleans
And the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase in the trunk
And the only time he’s satisfied
Is when he’s on a drunk
Oh mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Don’t spend your life in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun
I got one foot on the platform
And another on the train
And I’m goin’ back to New Orleans
To wear that ball and chain
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy
Dear God, I know I was one
Dear God, I know I was the one