Posted on by jeob

House of the Rising Sun

Key of G (default)
Key of F
Key of C
Key of D
Key of E
Key of A
[Intro]
 | C#m | E | F#m | A |
 | C#m | G# | C#m | G# |
 
[Verse 1] 
       C#m   E        F#m          A
 There is a house in New Orleans,
       C#m       E      G#
 They call the "Rising Sun",
      C#m       E       F#m           A
 It's been the ruin of many a poor boy,
     C#m     G#         | C#m | E | F#m | A | C#m | G# | C#m | G# | 
 And God, I know, I'm one                (organ plays G#7)
 
[Verse 2]
    C#m     E     F#m        A
 My mother was a tailor (organ: A7) 
     C#m       E        G#
 She sewed my new blue jeans (organ: G#7) 
     C#m    E     F#m        A
 My father was a gambling man,
 C#m      G#     | C#m | E | F#m | A | C#m | G# | C#m | G# | 
 Down in New Orleans.             (organ plays G#7)
 
[Verse 3]
         C#m   E       F#m       A
 Now the only thing a gambler needs (organ: A7) 
      C#m       E     G#
 Is a suitcase and a trunk (organ: G#7) 
         C#m   E     F#m         A
 And the only time, he's satisfied, 
    C#m        G#    | C#m | E | F#m | A | C#m | G# | C#m | G# | 
 Is when he's on a drunk              (organ plays G#7)
 
[Solo]
 | C#m | E | F#m | A |
 | C#m | E | G# | % |
 | C#m | E | F#m | A |
 | C#m | G# |
 | C#m | E | F#m | A |
 | C#m | G# | C#m | G# |
 
[Verse 4]
    C#m     E          F#m           A
 O, mother, tell your children (organ: A7) 
        C#m      E      G# 
 Not to do what I have done (organ: G#7) 
 C#m         E        F#m           A
 Spend your lives in sin and misery
        C#m       G#     | C#m | E | F#m | A | C#m | G# | C#m | G# | 
 In the House of Rising Sun              (organ plays G#7)
 
[Verse 5]
                 C#m       E      F#m            A
 Well, I've  got one foot on the platform (organ plays A7)
     C#m         E      G#
 The other foot on the train (organ: G#7) 
     C#m    E       F#m     A
 I'm going back to New Orleans (organ: A7) 
    C#m        G#         | C#m | E | F#m | A | C#m | G# | C#m | G# | 
 To wear that ball and chain              (organ plays G#7#9)
 
[Verse 6]
             C#m   E        F#m             A
 Well, there is a house in New Orleans (organ: A7) 
      C#m        E      G#
 They call the "Rising Sun"  (organ: G#7) 
          C#m       E       F#m           A
 And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
     C#m     G#7      | C#m | E | F#m | A7 | C#m | G#7 |
 And God, I know, I'm one
 
[Coda]
 | C#m | F#m | C#m | F#m | C#m | F#m |
 (a tempo)
 | C#m | F#m | C#m | F#m | C#m