There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

It's been the ruin of many a poor girl

Be or God I'm one

Man be or God I'm one

Oh tell my baby sister

Don't do what I have done

Tell her to show me how

Down in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

They call the Rising Sun

My daddy was a tailor

He sews on them new bluejeans

And my mama she was a drunkard lord

Drinkin' down in New Orleans

Drinkin' down in New Orleans

I'm going back to New Orleans

My race is almost run

I've go home to spend the rest of my live long days

Beneath the Rising of the Sun

Beneath the Rising Sun

There is a house in New Orleans

They call the Rising Sun

It's been the ruin of many poor girl

And me or God I'm one

And me or God I'm one