House of the Rising Sun

[Chorus]
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun

[Verse 1]
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl
Oh God, I know I'm one

[Verse 2]
If I had listened to what my Mama say
Why I'd be there home today
But I was young and foolish and poor
Led a gambling man lead me on astray

[Chorus]
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun

[Verse 3]
My mother she's a tailor
And she sews those new blue jeans
My sweetheart is a drunken, oh Lord
Hе drinks down in New Orleans

[Verse 4]
Go and tell my baby's sistеr
Don't you do, don't you do what your sister has done
Stay away from that house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Run

[Chorus]
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun

[Verse 5]
Well, I've got one foot on the platform
Got the other foot on a train
I'm going back to New Orleans
Gonna wear that ball and chain

[Verse 6]
I'm going back to New Orleans
My race is almost run
I'm going back to spend my life
Beneath the Rising Sun

[Outro]
There is a house in New Orleans (Goin' back)
They call the Rising Sun
(Goin' back)
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
(Yeah I'm going back down way down there)
(I'm gonna wear that ball and chain)