House of the Rising Sun
Artist: The Animals
Chordingly arrangement

Meter: 6/8
Tempo: 78 BPM

Playing patterns:
[Verse And Intro] Pick 5 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 3
[Instrumentals] Pick 5 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 3
[Fade-Out Am–Dm] Pick 5 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 2 - 3

Chord sheet:
[Intro]
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Verse 1]
| Am | C | D | F |
There is a house in New Orleans
| Am | C | E | E |
They call the Risin' Sun
| Am | C | D | F |
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy.
| Am | E | Am | Am |
And God, I know I'm one.

[Instrumental]
| C | D | F | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Verse 2]
| Am | C | D | F |
My mother was a tailor.
| Am | C | E | E |
She sewed my new blue jeans.
| Am | C | D | F |
My father was a gamblin' man
| Am | E | Am | Am |
Down in New Or-leans.

[Instrumental]
| C | D | F | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Verse 3]
| Am | C | D | F |
Now, the only thing a gambler needs
| Am | C | E | E |
Is a suitcase and a trunk
| Am | C | D | F |
And the only time that he's satisfied
| Am | E | Am | Am |
Is when he's on a drunk

[Instrumental]
| C | D | F | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Organ Solo]
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | C | E | E |
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | Am | E | E |
| Am | C | D | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Verse 4]
| Am | C | D | F |
Oh, Mother, tell your children
| Am | C | E | E |
Not to do what I have done.
| Am | C | D | F |
Spend your lives in sin and misery
| Am | E | Am | Am |
In the house of the risin' sun.

[Instrumental]
| C | D | F | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Verse 5]
| Am | C | D | F |
Well, I've got one foot on the platform,
| Am | C | E | E |
the other foot on the train.
| Am | C | D | F |
I'm goin' back to New Orleans
| Am | E | Am | Am |
To wear that ball and chain.

[Instrumental]
| C | D | F | F |
| Am | E | Am | E |

[Verse 6]
| Am | C | D | F |
Well, there is a house in New Orleans
| Am | C | E | E |
They call the Risin' Sun
| Am | C | D | F |
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy.
| Am | E | Am | Am |
And God, I know I'm one.

[Instrumental]
| C | D | F | F |
| Am | Am | E | E |
| Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am | Dm |
(fade out with Am and Dm)