Cm     Eb  F     Ab
My mother was a tailor
    Cm       Eb     G     
She sewed my new blue jeans
   Cm     Eb   F         Ab
My father was a gamblin' man
  Cm       G     Cm
Well down in New Orleans


[Interlude]
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Cm G Cm G


[Verse]
        Cm   Eb     F        Ab
Now the only thing a gambler needs
     Cm   Eb        G    
Is a suitcase and a gun
        Cm   Eb   F         Ab
And the only time he's satisfied
   Cm      G      Cm
Is when he's on the run


[Verse]
  Cm     Eb  F             Ab
Oh mothers tell your children
     Cm        Eb      G   
Not to do what I have done
Cm         Eb      F            Ab
Spend your lives in sin and misery
      Cm           G      Cm  G
In the house of the risin' sun


[Verse]
      Cm   Eb      F       Ab
There is a house in New Orleans
     Cm       Eb      G  
They call the Risin' Sun
         Cm       Eb       F           Ab
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    Cm     G            Cm  G
And God I know that I'm one
         Cm       Eb       F           Ab
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    Cm     G                        Cm
And God I know, well I know I'm one