The Animals House of the Rising Sun

There is a house in New Orleans They called the Rising Sun And it s been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know I m one My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gambling man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time he s satisfied Is when he s on a drunk Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the house of the rising sun Well I got one foot on the platform The other foot on the train I m goin back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Well there s a house in New Orleans They called the Rising Sun And it s been the ruin for many a poor boy And God I know I m one