There is a house in New Orleans
They call the rising sun
And its been a ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one

Well Mother, tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Oh yeah, spend our life in sin and misery
In the house of the rising sun

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the rising sun
And its been a ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one