House of the Rising Sun

(Alan Price)



There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

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

And Lord, I know I'm one.



My mother was a tailor, boys

She sewed my old blue jeans

My daddy was a gamblin' man

Way down in New Orleans.



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I got one foot on the platform, boys

The other on that train

I'm going down to New Orleans

To pull 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 Lord, I know I'm one.



In the house of the Rising Sun...