The Animals - House of the rising sun - TD edit


[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, 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 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 drunk

 

[Verse 4]

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O, 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 Rising 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 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

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And God, I know, I'm one

 

[Coda]

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