Ami C D F 1. There is a house in New OrleansAmi C E they call the Rising SunAmi C D F and it's been a ruin of many a poor boyAmi E Ami C D F Ami E Ami E and God I know I'm one. 2. My mother was a tailor sewed my new blue jeans my father was a gamblin' man down in New Orleans. 3. Now the only thing a gambler needs is suitcase and trunk and the only time he's satisfied is when he's on, a drunk. 4. Oh mother tell your children not to do what I have done spend yor lives in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun. 5. Well, I've got one foot on the platform the other foot on the train I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain. 6.=1.