| 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 sew my new blue jeans | |
| And my father was a gambling man | |
| Down in New Orleans | |
| And the only thing a gambler needs | |
| Is a suitcase and a trunk | |
| And the only time that he's satisfied | |
| Is when he's on a drunk | |
| Oh, mother tell your children | |
| Not to do what I have done | |
| Spend your life sincere in misery | |
| In the house of the Rising Sun | |
| I got one foot on the platform | |
| And the other on the train | |
| I'm going back to New Orleans | |
| To wear the ball and chain | |
| 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 |
| 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 sew my new blue jeans | |
| And my father was a gambling man | |
| Down in New Orleans | |
| And the only thing a gambler needs | |
| Is a suitcase and a trunk | |
| And the only time that he' s satisfied | |
| Is when he' s on a drunk | |
| Oh, mother tell your children | |
| Not to do what I have done | |
| Spend your life sincere in misery | |
| In the house of the Rising Sun | |
| I got one foot on the platform | |
| And the other on the train | |
| I' m going back to New Orleans | |
| To wear the ball and chain | |
| 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 |
| 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 sew my new blue jeans | |
| And my father was a gambling man | |
| Down in New Orleans | |
| And the only thing a gambler needs | |
| Is a suitcase and a trunk | |
| And the only time that he' s satisfied | |
| Is when he' s on a drunk | |
| Oh, mother tell your children | |
| Not to do what I have done | |
| Spend your life sincere in misery | |
| In the house of the Rising Sun | |
| I got one foot on the platform | |
| And the other on the train | |
| I' m going back to New Orleans | |
| To wear the ball and chain | |
| 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 |