The House Of Rising Sun
There is a house in New Orleans,
they call it Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
and God, I know I'm one
My mother was a tailores
sewed my new blue jeans
My father was a gamblin' man
down in New Orleans
Now the onl y thing a gambler needs
is a suitcase and a trunk
And the onl y time he'll be satisfied
is when he's down and drunk.
Oh mother tell your children
not to do what I have done
spend your lives in sin and misery
in the House of the Rising sun
Well I've got 1 foot on the platform
the other foot on the train
I'm going back to New Orleans
to wear that ball and chain
There is a house in New Orleans
they call it Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
and God, I know I'm one
The House Of Rising Sun / Bob Walsh