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There is a house in New Orleans
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they call the Rising Sun
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It's been the ruin of many a poor girl
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and me, O God, for one
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If I had listened what Mama said,
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I'd be at home today
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Being so young and foolish, poor boy,
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let a rambler lead me astray
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Go tell my baby sister,
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never do like I have done
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To shun that house in New Orleans
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they call the Rising Sun
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My mother, she's a tailor,
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she sewed these new blue jeans
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My sweetheart, he's a drunkard, Lord, Lord,
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drinks down in New Orleans
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The only thing a drunkard needs
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is a suitcase and a trunk
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The only time he's satisfied
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is when he's on a drunk
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Fills his glasses to the brim,
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passes them around
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Only pleasure he gets out of life
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is hoboin' from town to town
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One foot is on the platform
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and the other one on the train
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I'm going back to New Orleans
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to wear that ball and chain
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Going back to New Orleans,
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my race is almost run
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Going back to spend the rest of my days
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beneath that Rising Sun