House On The Rising Sun

**Chords:**
Am C D F
Am C E Am

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.  

My mother was a tailor,  
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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.  

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.  

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 the Rising Sun.  

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.  

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