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House of the Rising Sun Lyrics
There is a house in New Orleans,
they call the rising sun.
It`s been the ruin for many a poor girl, and me, oh God, I`m one.
If I had listened to what my mother said,
I`d have been at home today,
but I was young and foolish, oh, God, let a rambler lead me astray.
Go tell my baby sister Don't do what I have done. Go shun that house in New Orleans
They call it the Rising Sun
in the house of the rising sun.
I`m going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run,
I`m going back to spend my life beneath the rising sun.
they call the rising sun.
It`s been the ruin for many a poor girl, and me, oh God, I`m one.
If I had listened to what my mother said,
I`d have been at home today,
but I was young and foolish, oh, God, let a rambler lead me astray.
Go tell my baby sister Don't do what I have done. Go shun that house in New Orleans
They call it the Rising Sun
in the house of the rising sun.
I`m going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run,
I`m going back to spend my life beneath the rising sun.
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It's so easy to despise such lost souls, but in folk music they get to be heard. And Joan Baez made them lovable, though she herself was just 20 years old girl when she sang this aging woman's song.
this soo isn't the lyrics to Joan's version.
Ok I fixed it.
Ok I fixed it.