The first theory about the origin of this song is about a brothel in New Orleans. The House Of The Rising Sun was named after its occupant Madame Marianne LeSoleil Levant (which means The Rising Sun in French) and was open for business from 1862 (occupation by Union troops) until 1874, when it was closed due to complaints by neighbors.
\nThe second theory is that it’s about a women’s prison in New Orleans called the Orleans Parish women’s prison, which had an entrance gate adorned with rising sun artwork. This would explain the “ball and chain” lyrics in the song.<\/div><\/p>\n
CHORDS:\u00a0 Am\u00a0 C\u00a0 D\u00a0 E<\/span><\/strong>
\n<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n[ MAIN LINE ] – – – – – There [Am] is a [C] house in [D] New [F] Orleans.\u00a0\u00a0 They [Am] call the [C] Rising [E] Sun<\/span><\/strong>,\u00a0 – – – – – and it’s [Am been the [C] ruin of [D] many a poor [F] boy, and [Am] God I [E] know I’m [Am] one.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n – – – – – My [Am] mother [C] was a [D] tailor. [F]\u00a0\u00a0 She [Am] sewed my [C] new blue jeans [E]<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0 – – – – – My [Am] father [C] was a [D] gamblin’ [F] man\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 [Am] down in [E] New [Am] Orleans.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n – – – – – Now the [Am] only [C] thing a [D] gambler [F] needs,\u00a0 is a [Am] suitcase [C] and trunk [E]<\/span><\/strong> – – – – – And the [Am] only [C] time he’s [D] satisfied [F]\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 is [Am] when he’s [E] on a [Am] drunk.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n – – – – – Oh [Am] mother [C] tell your [D] children [F]\u00a0 not to [Am] do what [C] I have done. [E]<\/span><\/strong> – – – – – [Am] Spend your [C] lives in [D] sin and [F] misery, \u00a0 in the [Am] House of the [E] Rising [Am] Sun.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n – – – – – Well, I got [Am] one foot [C] on the [D] platform. [F]\u00a0\u00a0 The [Am] other [C] on the train. [E]<\/span><\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0 – – – – – I’m [Am] goin’ [C] back to [D] New [F] Orleans\u00a0 to [Am] wear that [E] ball and [Am] chain.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n\n| [ MAIN LINE ] – – – – –<\/span> <\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Animals – – Key of A CHORDS:\u00a0 Am\u00a0 C\u00a0 D\u00a0 E [ MAIN LINE ] – – – – – There [Am] is a [C] house in [D] New [F] Orleans.\u00a0\u00a0 They [Am] call the [C] Rising [E] Sun,\u00a0 – – – – – and it’s [Am been the … CLICK TO VIEW SONGHouse of the Rising Sun<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[120,95,133,126,265,116,117,131,132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-perflive","category-animals","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-power-outage","category-test-for-ebook"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30155,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/30155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}} | | | | | |