songbook/songs/the_animals/the_house_of_rising_sun.sg

\selectlanguage{english}
\songcolumns{2}
\beginsong{House of the rising sun}
  [by={The Animals},cover={the-animals},album={The animals}]

  \cover
  \gtab{Am}{X02210}
  \gtab{C}{X32010}
  \gtab{D}{XX0232}
  \gtab{F}{1:022100}
  \gtab{E7}{020100}

  \begin{verse}
    \[Am]There is a \[C]house in \[D]New Orleans \[F]
    They \[Am]call the \[C]Rising \[E7]Sun
    And it's \[Am]been the \[C]ruin of \[D]many a poor \[F]boy
    And \[Am]God, I \[E7]know, I'm \[Am]one
    {\nolyrics \[C D F Am E7 Am E7]}
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse}
    My mother was a tailor
    She sewed my new bluejeans
    My father was a gamblin' man
    Down in New Orleans
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse}
    Now the only thing a gambler needs
    Is a suitcase and trunk
    And the only time he's satisfied
    Is when he's on a drunk
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse}
    Oh mother tell your children
    Not to do what I have done
    Spend your lives in sin and misery
    In the House of the Rising Sun
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse}
    Well, I got one foot on the platform
    The other foot on the train
    I'm goin' back to New Orleans
    To wear that ball and chain
  \end{verse}

  \begin{verse}
    Well, there is a house in New Orleans
    They call the Rising Sun
    And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    And God I know I'm one
  \end{verse}

\endsong