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 gamblin' man, oh
Down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk, yeah
Mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done, yeah, yeah
Spend your lives in sin and misery, oh
In the House of the Rising Sun
(The rising, ooh)
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been (and it's been)
The ruin (ruin)
Of many a poor boy (a poor boy)
And God knows I am one