House of the Rising Sun
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There is a house in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun.
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God I know I'm one
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My mother was a tailor, she sewed my new blue jeans.
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My father was a gamblin' man, down in New Orleans.
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Now the only thing a gambler needs, is a suitcase and trunk.
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And the only time he's satisfied Is when he's on a drunk.
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Oh mother tell your children, not to do what I have done.
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Spend your lives in sin and misery, in the House of the Rising Sun.
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Well, I got one foot on the platform, the other foot on the train.
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I'm goin' back to New Orleans, to wear that ball and chain.
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Well, there is a house in New Orleans, they call the Rising Sun.
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy, and God I know I'm one.