12/8 | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
There is a house in New Orleans,
⠀ | Am C | | E7 |
They call it Rising Sun.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy,
⠀ | Am E7 | | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
And God, I know I’m one.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
My mother was a tailor
⠀ | Am C | | E7 |
She sewed my new blue jeans
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
My father was a gambling man
| Am E7 | | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
Down in New Orleans.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
And the only thing a gambler needs
⠀ | Am C | | E7 |
Is a suitcase and a trunk.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
And the only time he is satisfied
⠀ | Am E7 | | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
Is when he’s on a drunk.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
So mother tell your children
⠀ | Am C | | E7 |
Not to do what I have done
| Am C | | D F |
Spend your lives in sin and misery
⠀ | Am E7 | | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
In the House of a Rising sun.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
Well I’ve got one foot on the platform
⠀ | Am C | | E7 |
The other foot on the train.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
I’m going back to New Orleans
⠀ | Am E7 | | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
To wear that ball and chain.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
There is a house in New Orleans,
⠀ | Am C | | E7 |
They call it Rising Sun.
⠀ | Am C | | D F |
And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy,
⠀ | Am E7 | | Am C | D F | Am E7 | Am E7 |
And God, I know I’m one.