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    This document provides lyrics to the folk song "House of the Rising Sun". The summary is as follows: 1) The song tells the story of a house in New Orleans called the Rising Sun that has ruined many poor boys. 2) It describes the narrator's mother being a tailor and father being a gambler in New Orleans. 3) Gamblers only need a suitcase and trunk and are only satisfied when drunk.

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    This document provides lyrics to the folk song "House of the Rising Sun". The summary is as follows: 1) The song tells the story of a house in New Orleans called the Rising Sun that has ruined many poor boys. 2) It describes the narrator's mother being a tailor and father being a gambler in New Orleans. 3) Gamblers only need a suitcase and trunk and are only satisfied when drunk.

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    This document provides lyrics to the folk song "House of the Rising Sun". The summary is as follows: 1) The song tells the story of a house in New Orleans called the Rising Sun that has ruined many poor boys. 2) It describes the narrator's mother being a tailor and father being a gambler in New Orleans. 3) Gamblers only need a suitcase and trunk and are only satisfied when drunk.

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    This document provides lyrics to the folk song "House of the Rising Sun". The summary is as follows: 1) The song tells the story of a house in New Orleans called the Rising Sun that has ruined many poor boys. 2) It describes the narrator's mother being a tailor and father being a gambler in New Orleans. 3) Gamblers only need a suitcase and trunk and are only satisfied when drunk.

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    House of the Rising Sun

        
    Finger-picking style: Strumming rhythm
    The F chord: The chord of F

           
        
    requires you to press the index
    i m a m i finger across two strings at once.

          This barre technique can be quite

       difficult, so feel free to play the

    

    alternative, easier version of F. 1 2 & 3 4 5 & 6
    p

    X
    Am X
    C XX
    D XX
    F X
    F (easier) X
    E E7
    Index
    1 1 11 1 1 1

    2 3 2 1 2 2 2 2 3 2

    3 3 3 3 4

          
    Am (Em) C (G) D (A)  F (C) Am (Em) C (G)
     
                      
    1. There is a house in New Or - leans, they call the Ris - ing

    E (B7) E7 Am (Em) C (G) D (A)

               
              
    Sun, and it's been the ru - in of ma - ny a poor

    F (C) Am (Em) E (B7)  Am (Em) E (B7)


       
                  
    boy, and God I know I'm one

    2. My mother was a tailor, 4. With one foot on the platform


    She sewed my new blue jeans, And the other on the train,
    And my father was a gamblin’ man, I’m goin’ back to New Orleans
    Down in New Orleans. To wear that ball and chain.

    3. Now the only thing a gambler needs 5. Now mothers tell your children,
    Is a suitcase and a trunk, Not to do as I have done,
    And the only time he’s satisfied And spend your life in pain and misery
    Is when he’s all a-drunk. In the House of the Rising Sun.

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