House Of The Rising Sun (1964) (video)
(midi)
1. There is
a house in New Orleans, they call the rising sun.
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It`s been the ruin for many a poor girl,
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and me, oh Lord, I`m one.
2. My mother was a
taylor, she sewed our 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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D F Am C E
3. If I had
listened to what my mother said, I`d have been at home today,
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but
I was young and foolish, oh God,
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let a rambler lead me astray.
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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in the house of the rising sun.
5. I`m going back to
New Orleans, my race is almost run,
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D F Am E
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I`m going back to spend my life beneath the
rising sun.