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1. There is a house
in New Orleans, they call the rising
sun.
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D F
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It`s been the ruin for many a poor girl, and
me, oh Lord, I`m one.
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- F Am C E
2. My mother was a
taylor, she sewed our new blue jeans,
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my father was a gambling man, down in New Orleans.
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3. If I had
listened to what my mother said,
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I`d have been at home today,
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but I was young and foolish, oh, God, let a rambler
lead me astray.
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4. Oh Mothers, tell your children not to do what I have done,
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to spend their lives in sin and misery
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E Am - E
in the house of the rising sun.
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5. I`m going back to
New Orleans, my race is almost run,
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I`m going back to spend my life
beneath the rising sun.
6. = 1.
(The Animals)