The Animals – House of the Rising Sun

(Album: The Animals)(1964)

Am,  C,  D, F  | Am,   C,   E

Am,  C,  D, F  | Am,   E,        

Am,  C,  D, F  | Am,   E,   Am,   E

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

Sewed my new blue jeans

My father was a gambling man,

down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs

is a suitcase and a truck

and the only time he is satisfied,

is when he’s all drunk

Oh mother, tell your children

not to do what I have done

spend your lives in sin & misery,

in the house of the Rising Sun

Well, I’ve got one foot on the platform

The other foot on the train

I’m going back to New Orleans,

to wear that ball & chain           

[Repeat Verse 1]