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Intro:
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1)
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There is a house in New Orleans,
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They call the Rising Sun.
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And it's been the ruin of many poor boy,
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And God I know I'm one.
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My mother was a tailor,
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She sewed my new blue jeans.
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My father was a gambling man
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Down in New Orleans.
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Now the only thing a gambler needs
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Is a suitcase and a trunk.
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And the only time he's satisfied
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Is when he's all a-drunk.
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Oh mother tell your children
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Not to do what I have done.
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Spend your lives in sin and misery
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In the house of the Rising Sun.
5)
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Well I got one foot on the platform,
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The another one in the train
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I'm going back to New Orleans
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to wear that ball and chain.
6)
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There is a house in New Orleans,
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They call the Rising Sun.
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And it's been the ruin of many poor boy,
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And God I know I'm one.