There is a house in New Orleans 
They call the Rising Sun 
And it's been [bad word] of many a poor boy 
And God I know I'm one 

Oh mother tell your children 
Not to do what I have done 
Spend your lives in sin and misery 
In the House of the Rising Sun 

Well, there is a house in New Orleans 
They call the Rising Sun 
And it's been [bad word] of many a poor boy 
And God I know I'm one