There is a house down in New Orleans
  Down in the Vieux Carr'e
  A house they call the rising sun
  Where love and money are made
  My father he was a gambler
  Mother died when I was young
  And I've worked since then
  To please the men
  At the house of the rising sun
  
  There is a house
  Down in New Orleans
  They call the rising sun
  It's been the ruin of many a good girl
  And oh God, you know I'm one
  
  So mothers you go telling all your daughters
  Not to do what I've done
  To live a life of sin, shame and strife
  In the house of the rising sun
  
  There is a house in New Orleans
  They call the rising sun
  It's been the ruin of many a good girl
  And oh God, you know I'm one
  Oh God, you know I'm one