[Verse 1]
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
There is a house in New Orleans,
[Am] [C] [E7]
They call the "Rising Sun",
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
[Am] [E] [Am] [E7]
And God, I know, I'm one.
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
My mother was a tailor,
[Am] [C] [E7]
She sewed my new blue jeans,
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
My father was a gambling man,
[Am] [E] [Am] [E7]
Down in New Orleans.
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Now the only thing a gambler needs,
[Am] [C] [E7]
Is a suitcase and a trunk,
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
And the only time, he's satisfied, is when
[Am] [E] [Am] [E7]
He's on a drunk
[Solo]
[Am] [C] [D] [F] [Am] [C] [E7] [Am] [C] [D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E7]
[Verse 2]
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Oh, mother, tell your children
[Am] [C] [E7]
Not to do what I have done -
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Spend your lives in sin and misery
[Am] [E] [Am] [E7]
In the House of Rising Sun
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Well, I've got one foot on the platform,
[Am] [C] [E7]
The other's on the train,
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
I'm going back to New Orleans,
[Am] [E] [Am] [E7]
To wear that ball and chain.