My version of the song is pretty close to the of The Animals but I dropped the verse about the ball and chain and added two of my own. Mine are the 4th & 5th verses. There's a few other modifications here and there to fit it into my style of playing the song. Some words just roll of the tongue better than others.
Lyrics
There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin 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
Way down in New Orleans
Now the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and trunk
And the only time he's satisfied
Is when he's on a drunk
Well I went way down to new orleans
I went there with my six gun
And I went to find my daddy dear
to introduce him to his son.
Well I found him with a pretty young girl
My Lord, she was so fine
I shot him dead right then and there
and now I'm doing time.
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
They should shun old new orleans
and the House of the Rising Sun
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
And God I know I'm one
