Chords for Odetta - House of the Rising Sun

[F] _ _ [Bb] _ [Bbm] _ [Eb] _ _ [Db] _ _
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_ [Bbm] There [Eb] is [Db] a house _ [Bbm] in [Eb] New [Db] Orleans, _
[Bb] _ _ [Db] acorns _ [Abm] _ _ _
[Ebm] _ and [Eb] sun. _ _ _
[Db] It's been [Abm] the [G] ruin [Gb] of many _ [Eb] poor girls.
_ [Gb] And _
[C] _ I'm [Eb] _ [B] only [Db] one.
_ _ _ If I [Cm]
[Db] had listened _ [Bbm] what my [Cm] [Db] mother said, [E] _ [Db] [Bb] I'd have [Db] been _ [Abm] _
_ [Fm] _ _ [Db] today.
_ [Eb] _ _
[Gbm] _ [Bb] But [Db] _ being _ [Abm]
[G] young [Gb] and [Db] _ _ [Eb] foolish, [Cm] let a [Ebm] _ [Fm] gambler lead me [Bb] _ [Db] astray.
_ _ _ [Fm] _
[Bbm] My [Cm] mother, [Db] _ _ _ [Bbm] she's a tailor, [Cm] _ [Db] _ [E] _ [Db] _ [Bb] sold those [Db] [Gb] new _ _ [Ab] [Ebm] blue _ _ [Eb] jeans.
_ [F] _ My [Bbm] _ [Ab]
[Gb] sweetheart, _ _ [Cm] [Db] he's a _ _ [G]
drunkard, _ [C] drinks way [Eb] down in [B] New [Db] Orleans.
_ [Cm] _ [Db] _ _
_ _ [Bb] [Db] Go [Cm] tell [Db] _
my [Bbm] baby sister, [Cm] _ [Db] _ [Cm] _
[Db] never [Bb] do [Db] [Abm] what I [Db] _
[Gb] have [Bbm] done.
[Eb] _ _ [Db] _
To shun [B] the [G] house [Gb] in _ New [G] _ Orleans, [C] they [Dbm] _ [F] call [Eb] her I, [Bb] the [Bbm]
[Eb] son.
[Db] _ _ [Fm] _ _ [Bb] [Fm] One _
[Cm] _ [Db] foot's [Bb] on the [Db] platform, _
_ [Cm] _ [Db] _ [Fm] and the other on _ _
[Abm] _ _ [G] [Gb] this [Ebm] train.
[Fm] _ _
[Eb] _ _ [Gbm] [Bb] I'm [Db] _ [Gb] going [B] back [G] to [Db] New Orleans, _ [Gm] _
[G] _ [C] can't get [Gb] rid [F] of my [Db] ball and the chain.
_ _ _ [F] _
[Bb] _ [Cm] I'm [Db] going back [F]
[Bb] to [Bbm] New [Cm] [Db] Orleans, [Cm] _ [Fm] _
[Bb] my [Db] _ race [Abm] is [Dm] almost _
[Bbm] _ _ [F] run.
[Eb] _ [D] [Bb] I'm _ [Fm] going [Abm] _ back [Db] to [Ebm] spend [Gm] my life [Ab] beneath [Dbm] the house of [Eb] the [B] rising [Bb] _ [Db] sun.
_ _ _ [Fm] _ [Bbm] There [Eb] is [Db] a house _ [Bb] in [Bbm] _ [Eb] _
[Db] New _ _ [E] _ [C] Orleans.
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