The Animals - House Of The Rising Sun

WRITTEN BY : TRADITIONAL
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There is a house in new orleans they call the rising sun and
mother tell your children not to do what I have done spend
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it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and god I know I'm one
your life in sin and misery in the house of rising sun

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My mother was a
well I got foot on the
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tailor sewed my new blu jeans my father was a gambling
platform the other foot on the train I'm going back to new
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man down in new orleans
orleans to wear that ball and chain

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now the only thing the gambler needs is
there is a house in new orleans they
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a suit case and trunk and the only times he's satisfied is
call the rising sun and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy an
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when he's on a drunk
god I know I'm
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oh one