Song facts: “The House of the Rising Sun” is traditionally a folk song. The Animals’ version of the song was recorded in just one take in 1964.
Harmonica type: diatonic
-6 -6 -7 7 8 -8 -6 -6 There is a house in New Orleans -10 -10 -10 9 8 8 They call the Rising Sun -10 -10 -10 -7 7 8 -8-6 -6 -6 -6 And it’s been the ruin of many a poor boy -6 -6 -6 6 5 6 -6 And God, I know I’m one -10-10-10 9 7 -8 -6 My mother was a tailor -10 -10 9 8 8 Sewed my new blue jeans -10-10-10 9 7 -8-6 -6 -6 7 My father was a gamblin’ man -6 -6 6 5 6 -6 Down in New Orleans -10 -10 -10-10 9 7 -8 -6 -6 Now the only thing a gambler needs -10-10 -10 -10 9 8 8 Is a suitcase and a trunk -10 -10 -10-10 9 7 -8-6 -6 -6 7 And the only time he’ll be satisfied, -6 -6 -6 6 5 6 -6 Is when is all a-drunk -5 -6 -7 7 8 -8 -6 Oh mother tell your children -6 -10 -10 -10 9 8 8 Not to do what I have done 10 -7 7 8 -8 -6 -6-6-6 Spend your lives in sin and misery -6 -6 -6 -6 6 5 6 -6 In the House of the Rising Sun
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