there is a house down in new orleans down in the vieux carre 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 ive worked since then to please the men at the house of the rising sun there is a house down in new orleans they call the rising sun its 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 ve done to live a life of sin shame and strife in the house of the rising sun there is a house in new orleans they call the rising sun its been the ruin of many a good girl and oh god you know i m one oh god you know i m one