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

My mother was a tailor
She sewed my new bluejeans
My father was a gamblin' man
Down in New Orleans

Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and [bad word] And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a [bad word] 
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

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

And it's been [bad word] of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one