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	There is a house in New Orleans						There is a house in New Orleans
	They call the Rising Sun						They call the Rising Sun
	And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy						And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
	And God, I know I'm one						And God, I know I'm one
	My mother was a tailor						My mother was a tailor
	She sewed my new blue jeans						She sewed my new blue jeans
1	My father was a gamblin' man						My father was a gambling man	1
	Down in New Orleans						Down in New Orleans
	Now the only thing a gambler needs						Now the only thing a gambler needs
	Is a suitcase and trunk						Is a suitcase and trunk
	And the only time he's satisfied						And the only time he's satisfied
	Is when he's on a drunk						Is when he's on a drunk
2	Oh, mother, tell your children						Oh mother tell your children	2
	Not to do what I have done						Not to do what I have done
	Spend your lives in sin and misery						Spend your lives in sin and misery
3	In the house of the rising sun						In the house of the Rising Sun	3
4	Well, I got one foot on the platform						Well I got one foot on the platform	4
	The other foot on the train						The other foot on the train
5	I'm goin' back to New Orleans						I'm going back to New Orleans	5
	To wear that ball and chain						To wear that ball and chain
	Well, there is a house in New Orleans						Well, there is a house in New Orleans
	They call the Rising Sun						They call the Rising Sun
	And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy						And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
	And God, I know I'm one						And God, I know I'm one
1								1
2							[THE HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN[1]	2
3							Written by: Alan Price/Traditional	3
4							Performed by: The Animals[2]-1964	4
5							Albums: The Animals-1964, House of the Rising Sun-1970, Rip It To	5
6							Shreds-1984, The Sullivan Years: British Invasion-1990, Animals-2000,	6
7							British Legends-2006, et al.]	7
8								8
9							[1] Various places in New Orleans, Louisiana have been proposed as the	9
10							inspiration for the song, with varying degrees of plausibility. Only two	10
11							candidates, however, have historical documentation as using the name	11
12							"Rising Sun," both having listings in old city directories. The first	12
13							was a small short-lived hotel on Conti Street in the French Quarter in	13
14							the 1820s. An excavation and document search in early 2005 found	14
15							evidence supporting this claim, including an advertisement with language	15
16							that may have euphemistically indicated prostitution. The second was a	16
17							late 19th-century, "Rising Sun Hall," on the riverfront of the uptown	17
18							Carrollton neighborhood, which seems to have been a building owned and	18
19							used for meetings of a "Social Aid & Pleasure Club," commonly rented out	19
20							for dances and functions. Definite links to gambling or prostitution, if	20
21							any, are undocumented for either of these buildings, neither of which	21
22							still exists.]	22
23								23
24							[2] The earliest recording of this song seems to be by: Clarence "Tom"	24
25							Ashley & Gwen Foster in 1933. Other versions are recorded by: The	25
26							Callahan Brothers-1934, Roy Acuff-1938, Woodie Guthrie-1941, Lead	26
27							Belly-1948, Nina Simone-1954, Glenn Yarbrough-1957, Joan Baez-1959, Bob	27
28							Dylan-1962, The Supremes-1964, Marianne Faithful-1965, Nat Stuckey-1969,	28
29								29
30							Claude King-1970, Conway Twitty-1970, Frijid Pink-1970, Dolly	30
31							Parton-1980, Adolescents-1987, Jandek-1987, Tracy Chapman-1990, Miriam	31
32							Makeba-1994, Sinead O'Connor-1994, Peter, Paul & Mary-1995,	32
33							Evereve-2000, Bachman Turner Overdrive-2001, Brand New Sin-2006,	33
34							Sentenced-2007, et al.]	34
35								35
36							[3]Ball and chain, as used here, is a phrase that refers to a	36
37							restraining device that was used to slow down prisoners, consisting of a	37
38							heavy, solid, metal ball, attached to a chain, which is shackled to the	38
39							leg. The device is no longer used in developed countries today, but was	39
40							reported to be a standard in Sing Sing (Ossining Prison, New York State)	40
41							until the 1920s.]	41

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