House of the Rising Sun- The Animals

Animals - The House Of The Rising Sun


This is a fun song to play and it is relatively easy.  This song utilizes arpeggios.  An arpeggio is when the notes of a chord are picked individually.  After a few verses, begin to strum the chords, this will give the same chords a different feel.

Am        C        D        F
|-----0---|----0---|----2---|----1---|
|----1-1--|---1-1--|---3-3--|---1-1--|
|---2-----|--0-----|--2-----|--2-----|
|---------|------2-|-0----0-|-3------|
|--0----0-|-3------|--------|------0-|
|-0-------|--------|--------|--------|

Am        C        E        E7
|-----0---|----0---|----0---|----0---|
|----1-1--|---1-1--|---0-0--|---3-3--|
|---2-----|--0-----|--1-----|--1-----|
|---------|------0-|-2----2-|-2------|
|--0----0-|-3------|--------|------2-|
|---------|--------|--------|--------|

Am        C        D        F
|-----0---|----0---|----2---|----1---|
|----1-1--|---1-1--|---3-3--|---1-1--|
|---2-----|--0-----|--2-----|--2-----|
|---------|------2-|-0----0-|-3----0-|
|--0----0-|-3------|--------|--------|
|-0-------|--------|--------|--------|

Am        E7       Am        
|----0----|----0---|----0---|-5------|
|---1-1---|---3-1--|---1-1--|-5------|
|--2------|--1-----|--2-----|-5------|
|-2----0--|-2------|--------|--------|
|---------|------2-|-0----0-|-0------|
|---------|--------|--------|--------|



There is a house in New Orleans,
They call it 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
She 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 is satisfied
Is when he`s down and drunk.

So mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
In the House of a Rising sun.

Well I`ve 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.

There is a house in New Orleans,
They call it Rising Sun.
And it`s been the ruin of many a poor boy,
And God, I know I`m one.