“The House of the Rising Sun” is a traditional folk song from the United States. Also called “House of the Rising Sun” or occasionally “Rising Sun Blues”, it tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans. The most successful commercial version was recorded by the English rock group The Animals in 1964.
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Try transposing the song to other keys from the orignal key above to and see what chord substitutions you can come up with
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The House of the Rising Sun
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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
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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 gamblin' man
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Down in New Orleans
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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 that he's satisfied
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is when he's good and drunk
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Oh, 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 the Rising Sun
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Well I've 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
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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
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