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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, am one.
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My mother was a tailor,
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She sewed these old blue jeans,
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My father was a gambler
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down in New Or leans.
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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, when he is satis fied,
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is when He?s on a drunk.
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sweet young mother tell your children
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Not to do the things I've done -
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go and burn down that house down in New Orleans
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the one they call the Rising Sun pause
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I got One foot on the platform,
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The other foot on the train,
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and I'm going back to New Orleans,
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to wear that ball and chain.
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there is a house down 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, am one.
