Simple melody sheet music. Simple piano sheet with the Animals's arpeggio.
Slow blues version from 1942. The Animals, 1964. Muse, 2016. Chase Holfelder, 2018.
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor fool
For I, oh Lord, am one.
My mother was a tailor,
My pa, a hired gun.
My brother turned a sailor
To escape the Rising Sun.
My sweetheart was a gambler
Down in New Orleans.
He woke up of the wrong side of debt...
I still can hear his screams.
If I'd listened to what my mother said,
I'd be at home today.
But I was a young and foolish poor girl,
Let a gambler lead me astray.
I came out west to Salt City
For I was on the run.
It takes just disappearance or death
To escape the Rising Sun.
One foot is on the platform,
The other on the train.
Oh, I'll become a blacksmith
To break the ball and chain.
Oh God, please save my mother.
Oh God, please save my son.
Oh God, please save your children
From the House of the Rising Sun.
My mother died in poverty,
And I will do the same.
Oh death, oh death, come down on me,
Release me from my shame.
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun.
It's been the ruin of many a poor fool
For I, oh Lord, am one.
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