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There is a house in New Orleans,
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they call the Rising Sun.
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It has been the ruin of many a poor boy
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and God, I know I'm one.
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My mother was a tailor,
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she sewed my 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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Now the only thing a gambler needs,
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is a suitcase and a drunk.
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And the only time he'll be satisfied,
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is when he's all drunk.
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Oh mother, tell your children, .
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not to do what I have done.
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Spend your life in sin and misery,
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in the house of the Rising Sun.
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Well, I've got one foot on the platform,
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the other foot on the train.
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I'm going back to New Orleans,
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to wear that ball and chain.
