The Animals – House Of The Rising Sun
125 bpm 6/8 Picking [The Animals 1964]
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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and it's been… the ruin… of many a poor boy…
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and God… I know…
Interlude 1
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I'm one…
Verse 2
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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
Interlude 2
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Orleans…
Verse 3
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Now the only thing… a gambler needs…
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is a suitcase and a trunk…
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and the only time… he's satisfied…
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is when he's on a
Interlude 3
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drunk…
Solo
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Verse 4
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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 lives… in sin and misery…
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in the House… of the Rising
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Sun…
Verse 5
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Well I 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
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chain…
Verse 6
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Well there is a house… in New Orleans…
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They call the Rising Sun…
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and it's been… the ruin… of many a poor boy…
Am E
and God… I know…
Interlude 6
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I'm one…
Outro
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