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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.

[Part 2]
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My mother was a tailorest,
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she sewed my new bluejeans;
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my father was a gamblin' man
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down in New Orleans.

[Part 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 that he's satisfied
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is when he's down and drunk.

[Part 4]
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So, mothers tell, tell your children
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not to do what I have done ... aahoooo,
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not to spend there lives in sin and misery
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in the House of the Rising Sun.

[Part 5]
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I got one foot on the platform
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and another on the train;
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I'm goin' now (home?) to New Orleans
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to wear that ball and chain.

[Part 6]
      Am   C        D     F
There is a house in New Orleans
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they call the Rising Sun
         Am       C       D           F
and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
     Am     E        Am       E
and, God, I know I'm one.

[Outro]
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