House Of The Rising Sun

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

My mother was a tailor

She sewed my new blue jeans

My father was a gambling man

Down in New Orleans.

Now the only thing a gambler needs

Is a suitcase and a 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

Spend your lives in sin and misery

In the House of the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform

The other foot on the train

I'm going back to New Orleans

To wear that ball and chain

Well, 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