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 gambling man, Down in New Orleans. Now the only thing a gambler needs, Is a suitcase and a trunk. And the only time, he´ll be satisfied, Is when he´s on a 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. Well, 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.