there is a house in new orleans down in the vieux carr 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 pleasure the men at 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 so mothers you go telling all your daughters not to do what i have done to live a life of sin shame and strife in 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 oh god you know i m one2