The house of the rising sun (The animals)

In the Animals' recording the organ often plays 7th chords, when the guitar does not.

[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 "Rising Sun"
         Am       C       D             F
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    Am     E        | Am | C | D | F | Am | E | Am | E |
And God, I know, I'm one               (organ plays E7)


[Verse 2]
   Am     C     D        F
My mother was a tailor (organ: F7)
    Am       C        E     E
She sewed my new blue jeans (organ: E7)
   Am     C     D        F
My father was a gambling man
Am      E    | Am | C | D | F | Am | E | Am | E |
Down in New Orleans.            (organ plays E7)


[Verse 3]
        Am   C       D         F
Now the only thing a gambler needs (organ: F7)
     Am       C     E     E
Is a suitcase and a trunk (organ: E7)
        Am   C      D           F
And the only time, he's satisfied,
   Am        E    | Am | C | D | F | Am | E | Am | E |
Is when he's on a drunk              (organ plays E7)


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

[Verse 4]
    Am     C              D       F
Oh, mother, tell your children (organ: F7)
       Am      C      E     E
Not to do what I have done (organ: E7)
Am         C        D            F
Spend your lives in sin and misery
       Am           E     | Am | C | D | F | Am | E | Am | E |
In the House of the Rising Sun              (organ plays E7)

[Verse 5]
            Am       C      D           F
Well, I got one foot on the platform (organ plays F7)
    Am         C        E     E
The other foot on the train (organ: E7)
    Am    C       D           F
I'm going back to New Orleans (organ: F7)
   Am        E       | Am | C | D | F | Am | E | Am | E |
To wear that ball and chain             (organ plays E7#9)

[Verse 6]
            Am   C        D           F
Well, there is a house in New Orleans (organ: F7)
     Am        C      E     E
They call the "Rising Sun" (organ: E7)
         Am       C       D           F
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    Am     E7      | Am | C | D | F7 | Am | E7 |
And God, I know, I'm one

[Coda]
| Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am | Dm |

(a tempo)

| Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am

   (ritardando)     (organ plays Am9)