[Intro]
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |
 
         Am     C                      D           F
There is a house in New Orleans
          Am           C.         E     E
They call the "Rising Sun"
              Am            C          D                     F
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
        Am         E.            | Am | C | D | F | Am | E | Am | E |
And God, I know, I'm one               (organ plays E7)
 
My mother was a tailor (organ: F7)
She sewed my new blue jeans (organ: E7)
My father was a gambling man
Down in New Orleans.            (organ plays E7)
 
Now the only thing a gambler needs (organ: F7)
Is a suitcase and a trunk (organ: E7)
And the only time, he's satisfied,
Is when he's on a drunk              (organ plays E7)

Organ Solo
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | C | E | E |
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | E |
| Am | C/E | D | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

Oh, mother, tell your children (organ: F7)
Not to do what I have done (organ: E7)
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of the Rising Sun              (organ plays E7)
 
Well, I got one foot on the platform (organ plays F7)
The other foot on the train (organ: E7)
I'm going back to New Orleans (organ: F7)
To wear that ball and chain             (organ plays E7#9)
 
Well, there is a house in New Orleans (organ: F7)
They call the "Rising Sun" (organ: E7)
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God, I know, I'm one

 Coda:  | Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am | Dm |
(a tempo)
| Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am
   (ritardando)     (organ plays Am9; guitar equivalent: x-0-5-5-5-7)