There is a house in New Orleans they call the rising sun And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl and me, oh God, I'm one | I'm going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run I'm going back to end my life down in the rising sun |
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Now the only thing a gambler needs is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time when he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk | Interlude between verses something of the same as the intro |
Most of the song is reduced to an alternating thumb between the two d-strings, with occasional turns to an f or c in the bass.
2Well with one foot on the platform and the other foot on the train I'm going back to New Orleans to wear that ball and chain | |
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Both strumming and tab authors will receive a corresponding notification | It could also be picked with the index finger, but that disrupts the rhythm pattern a bit |
My mother was a tailor, she sowed these new blue jeans My sweetheart was a gambler, Lord, down in New Orleans.
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