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THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN

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Peter Kruger
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6/8 time throughout

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  There

           
is a house in 

           
New Orleans
            
They call the 

      
Rising Sun
            
And it's been 

            
the ruin of ma

          
ny a poor boy
        
And God I know

 I'm
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one           

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     My
           
  mother was a

        
 tailor
           
She sewed my n

        
ew blue jeans
           
My father was 

          
a gamblin' man
      
Down in New Or

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-leans        

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    Now the

          
only thing a g

      
ambler needs
            
Is a suitcase 

   
and trunk
           
And the only t

             
ime he's satis

 
 fied
           
Is when he's o

n a

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drunk

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        Oh

           
mother     tel

            
l your childre

    
n
            
Not to do what

       
 I have done
           
Spend your liv

            
es in sin and 

   
mi sery
            
In the House o

      
f the Rising

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 Sun          

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Well, I got  
                                         
           
one foot on th

         
e platform
           
The other foot

        
 on the train
           
I'm goin' back

             
 to New Orlean

  
s
           
To wear that b


all and

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           Wel

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l there 

           
is a house in 

           
New Orleans
            
They call the 

      
Rising Sun
            
And it's been 

           
the ruin of ma

          
ny a poor boy
        
And God I know

 I'm

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 one

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