Lyricist : Traditional/Jeremy Renner

Composer : Traditional/Jeremy Renner

There is a house in New Orleans

they call the rise of sun.

It's been the ruin of many poor boys.

And God, I know I'm one.

My mother was a tailor.

She sewed my own blue jeans.

My father was a foolish man down in New Orleans.

Now the only thing the foolish needs

is a suitcase and a trunk.

And the only time he's satisfied

is when he's pondering.

Oh mother, tell your children

to do as I say not as I've done.

Spent your life in suicide

In the house of the rising sun.

Now I'm running to the station.

Got my two feet on this train.

And I know I'll wait where it began to live my life.

There is a house in New Orleans

they call the rising sun.

it's been the ruin of many poor boys.

And God, I know I'm one.