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

Well Mother, tell your children 
Not to do what I have done
Or you'll spend your life in sin and misery
In the house of the Rising Sun 

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