David Allan Coe 
House of the Rising Sun

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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 boy,
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Lord knows I was one.

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My Father was a gambler, 
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He lived by the gun,
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He swore someday he’d take me to the play,  
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At the House of the Rising Sun.

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My mother was a lady,
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She never hurt no one,
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She cursed the day,
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I went to play in the House of the Rising Sun.

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She said, “ you’re like your daddy boy,
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Livin’ on the run,
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Someday you’ll draw a dead man’s hand,
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In the House of the Rising Sun.

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So listen all you gamblers,
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Don’t do what I have done,
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You’ll lose the things that you love the most,
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In the House of the Rising Sun.

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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 luck of many poor boys,
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And I guess that I was one.
 
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