[Intro]
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[Verse 1]
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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's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
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And God, I know, I'm one (organ plays C#7)
[Verse 2]
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My mother was a tailor (organ: D7)
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She sewed my new blue jeans (organ: C#7)
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My father was a gambling man,
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Down in New Orleans. (organ plays C#7)
[Verse 3]
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Now the only thing a gambler needs (organ: D7)
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Is a suitcase and a trunk (organ: C#7)
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And the only time, he's satisfied,
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Is when he's on a drunk (organ plays C#7)
[Solo]
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[Verse 4]
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O, mother, tell your children (organ: D7)
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Not to do what I have done (organ: C#7)
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Spend your lives in sin and misery
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In the House of Rising Sun (organ plays C#7)
[Verse 5]
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Well, I've got one foot on the platform (organ plays D7)
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The other foot on the train (organ: C#7)
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I'm going back to New Orleans (organ: D7)
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To wear that ball and chain (organ plays C#7#9)
[Verse 6]
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Well, there is a house in New Orleans (organ: D7)
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They call the "Rising Sun" (organ: C#7)
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
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And God, I know, I'm one
[Coda]
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(a tempo)
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The proper way to eat a cinnamon roll is to just bite into it