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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

she sewed my new blue jeans

my father was a gamblin' man

down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs

is a suitcase and a trunk

and the only time he's satisfied

is when he's drunk

Oh mother, tell your children

not to do what I have done

spend your lives in sin and misery

in the House of the Rising Sun

Well, I got one foot on the platform

the other foot on the train

I'm going back to New Orleans

to wear that ball and chain

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

- "The House of the Rising Sun" The Animals, 1964