Conference marvin::uk_music

887.0. "House of the Rising Sun" by RDGENG::LIBRARY (unconventional conventionalist) Thu Aug 15 1991 15:07

    URGENT:
    
    Can anyone tell me all the verses of the Animals' "House of the Rising
    Sun", please?
    
    I only know four.
    
    I need to know by tonight.
    
    Here's the four I know:
    
    	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
    	Sewed my new blue jeans
    	My father was a gambling man
    	Down in New Orleans
    
    	And the only thing a gambler needs
    	Is a suitcase and a trunk
    	And the only time he'd be satisfied
    	Is when he's all drunk
    
    	Oh, mother's tell your children
    	Not to do what I have done
    	And spend their lives in sincere misery
    	At the house of the Rising Sun.
    
    Well that's roughly it. I also need to know if those verses are in the
    right order.
    
    Alice T.

    You've got it all right and in the correct order so far, just one more
    verse as I remember....
    
    I got one foot on the platform,
    The other foot on the train,
    I'm going back to New Orleans,
    To wear that ball and chain.
    
    Phil Gill

    Oh, and its `sin and misery' not `sincere misery'!
    
    Phil Gill

    
    And its 'Oh Mother, tell your children'. At least it is according to
    the sheet music. But then seeing as its a 'trad' song there presumably
    is no 'right' lyrics.
    
    Richard