There is a house in New Orleans They call 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 gamblin' man Down in New Orleans Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Don't spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun… Don't spend your lives In the House of the Rising Sun… Don't spend your lives In the House of the Rising Sun…