This song is a quickly played 6/8 time and I suggest to use the following 
strumming pattern for each chord:
Have fun!

Greetings - Jörn

           
There is a hou

          
se in New Orle

ans
            
They call the 

        
Rising Sun
            
And it's been 

           
the ruin of ma

          
ny a poor boy
           
And God I know

     
 I'm one

           
My mother was 

      
a tailor
           
She sewed my n

           
ew bluejeans
           
My father was 

         
a gamblin' man
           
Down in New Or


leans

           
Now the only t

            
hing a gambler

 
 needs
            
Is a suitcase 

         
and a trunk
           
And the only t

            
ime he's satis


fied
           
Is when he's o

    
n a drunk

           
Oh mother tell

            
 your children
            
Not to do what

          
 I have done
           
Spend your liv

            
es in sin and 


misery
            
In the House o

            
f the Rising S


un

            
Well, I got on

             
e foot on the 

      
platform
            
The other foot

           
 on the train
           
I'm goin' back

        
 to New Orlean

s
           
To wear that b

        
all and chain

            
Well, there is

           
 a house in Ne

    
w Orleans
            
They call the 

        
Rising Sun
            
And it's been 

           
the ruin of ma

          
ny a poor boy
           
And God I know

     
 I'm one