House Of The Rising Sun Chords by Doc Watson  &  Richard Watson

[Start]

[Intro]
Cm Eb F Ab Cm G7 Cm F
■  ■  ■ ■  ■  ■  ■  ■
Ab Cm G7 Cm
■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Verse]
                      F      Ab     
There is a house down in New Orleans
Cm            G7          
They call the 'Rising Sun'
Cm                 F         Ab      
It's been the ruin of many a poor boy
Cm     G7     Cm     
And me oh god I'm one


[Chorus]
                      F      Ab 
Mama she worked for a tailor man
Cm                   G7        
She sewed all my new blue jeans
Cm           F     Ab          
And my daddy was a gambling man
Cm             G7      Cm     
In the town of old New Orleans


[Inst]
Eb F Cm G7 Cm Eb Cm
■  ■ ■  ■  ■  ■  ■ 


[Verse]
    Eb              F         Ab        
The only thing that a rounder ever needs
Cm               G7     
Is a suitcase or a trunk
    Cm            F         Ab       
And the only time he's ever satisfied
Cm                    
Is when he's on a drug
                         F
Boys fill up the glasses ■
         Ab      
Right to the brim


[Chorus]
Cm                  G7           
Let the drinks flow merrily round
Cm                      
Well drink to the health
F            Ab      
Of the round poor boy
Cm                           
Who rambles from town to town
                  Eb     
Now fellows don't believe
F          Ab             
What a bad woman tells you
Cm                   G7      
For her eyes be blue or brown
Cm                       F        Ab           
Unless she's standing on some old scaffold high
Cm                  G7           Cm       
Saying Fellows they won't let me come down


[Solo]
F Cm G7 Cm F Ab Cm
■ ■  ■  ■  ■ ■  ■ 


[Chorus]
           F        Ab     
Go tell my youngest brother
Cm                              G7       
Not to do the awful things that I've done
Cm                Eb             F      Ab     
And to shine that old house down in New Orleans
Cm             G7  Cm        
That they call the rising sun
                               F             
Soon they'll take me back down to New Orleans
Cm                          G7       
To face all the crimes that I've done
Cm                     F      Ab            
Then they'll tie me to an old ball and chain
Cm       G            Cm    
Until my earthly race is run


[End]