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 Lord, I`m one
My mother was a taylor, she sewed our new blue jeans,
my father was a gambling man, down in New Orleans
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
Oh Mothers, tell your children not to do what I have done,
to spend their lives in sin and misery
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
(The Animals)