The House of the Rising Sun (original)

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 There is a house in charming town
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they call the rising sun
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl
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And me oh god I'm one

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If I'd listened to my mama
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Lord I'd be home today
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But I was young and foolish
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And some rider led me astray

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Go tell my baby sister
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Never do what I have done
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To shun the house in charming town
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They call the rising sun

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My mother she's a tailor
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She sewed my new blue jeans
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My sweetheart he's a rambler
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Lord he rides an old machine

 SOLO 
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Fm G# C
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Em G# Fm



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Now the only thing a rambler needs
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is a suitcase and a gun
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The only time he's satisfied
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is when he's on the run

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He fills his chamber up with lead
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And takes his pain to town
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The only pleasure he gets out of life
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is bringing another man down

-- Instrumental --

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He's got one hand on the throttle
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the other on the brake
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He's riding back to Redwood
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to own his fathers' stake


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And here I wait in charming town
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to gain my lovless one??
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I'm staying here to end my life
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down in the rising sun

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I'm staying here to end my life
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down in the rising sun