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 Sewed My New Bluejeans My Father Was a Gamblin' Man Down in New Orleans Now the Only Thing a Gambler Needs Is a Suitcase and Trunk and the Only Time He's Satisfied Is When He's On a Drunk ------ Organ Solo ------ 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 Got One Foot On the Platform the Other Foot On the Train I'm Goin' Back to New Orleans to Wear That Ball and Chain Well, 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