House of the Rising Sun - The Animals 

Tab by Nathan Lambert, based on the tab by Chayes.

I made the tab more compact so I could see the lyrics better, but I left the
intro chords as an example of the picking pattern. The *'s are where you should
be keeping time somehow! In the comments section of another tab, some people said
they were having trouble with the "extra" notes, so I put those in parentheses ().
Playing them does sound more like the song, but people probably won't notice if
you leave them out ;)  I also fixed how the chords lined up with the lyrics to
something that makes more sense to me. Hope this helps someone. Cheers!

Standard tuning
No capo

[Intro]
    
            
e|--------0---
B|-------1--1-
G|------2-----
D|----(2)-----
A|----0-------
E|-(0)--------

             
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------------1-
2----------0--
---------(2)--
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-1-----------3
---0--------2-
-------(2)-0--
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2)-2----------
-----3--------
-------2------
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---(1)-1------
---1-----1----
--2--------2--
-3------------
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e|--------0---
B|-------1--1-
G|------2-----
D|----(2)-----
A|----0-------
E|-(0)--------

             
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-----------0--
2---------1--1
---------2----
-------(2)----
---(0)-0------

            
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------------1-
-----------2--
-2-------(2)--
---------0----
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---1--1-------
--2-----2-----
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[Verse 1]

            
    There is a

            
 house in New 

        
Orleans
            
    they call 

              
the Rising Sun
             
    And it's b

            
een the ruin o

             
f many a poor 


boy
            
    And, God, 

              
I know I'm one


[Interlude]

                   


[Verse 2]

            
    My mother 

           
was a tailor
            
    She sewed 

            
my new blue je

    
ans
            
    My father 

            
was a gamblin'

 
 man
           
    Down in Ne

           
w Orleans


[Interlude]

                   


[Verse 3]

            
    Now the on

            
ly thing a gam

     
bler needs
            
    is a suitc

            
ase and a trun

  
k
            
    And the on

            
ly time that h

           
e's satisfied
            
    is when he

           
's on a drunk


[Interlude]

                   

(Organ solo)


[Verse 4]

            
    Oh, mother

            
, tell your ch

       
ildren
            
    not to do 

            
what I have do

   
ne
            
    spend your

            
 lives in sin 

         
and misery
            
    in the hou

             
se of the Risi

       
ng Sun


[Interlude]

                   


[Verse 5]

              
    Well I've 

           
got one foot o

               
n the platform
            
    the other 

            
foot on the tr

    
ain
            
    I'm going 

            
back to New Or

    
leans
            
    to wear th

           
at ball and ch

    
ain


[Interlude]

                   


[Verse 6]

              
    Well There

           
 is a house in

       
 New Orleans
            
    they call 

              
the Rising Sun
            
    And it's b

             
een the ruin o

             
f many a poor 


boy
            
    And, God, 

              
I know I'm one


[Outro]

  Strum each of these chords (same chords as Interlude) once while the 
  organ plays, and end on an Am if you want.
                      


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