Isla Cameron - The Jupiter Book of Ballads: Spoken and Sung by Isla Cameron, Jill Balcon, Pauline Letts, John Laurie, etc.

The House of the Rising Sun

There is a house in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
And it's been the ruin of many a-poor girls
And me-oh, Lord for once
If I had listened what mama said
I'd be at home today
But being so young and foolish, oh Lord
Let a gambler lead me a astray
My mother is a tailor
Se sewed these new blue jeans
My sweetheart is a gambler man
Drinks down in New Orleans
Well, the only thing a gambler needs
Is a suitcase and a trunk
And the only time he's satisfied is when he's on a drunk
He will fills his glasses to the brim,
and he passes them around
And the only pleasure he gets out of life is hoboin from town to town
So tell my baby sister
Don't do what I have done
But shine that house in New Orleans they call it rising sun
Oh, I'm going back to New Orleans
My life is almost rotten
I'm going back to spend my days beneath the Rising sun



Credits
Writer(s): Publico Dominio, Alan Price
Lyrics powered by www.musixmatch.com
Link

Other Album Tracks

  1. The Wife of Usher's Well
  2. Lord Randall
  3. St. Stephen and King Herod
  4. Alison Gross
  5. The Dowie Dens of Yarrow
  6. Mary Hamilton
  7. Barbara Allen
  8. The Unquiet Grave
  9. She's Like a Swallow
  10. Blackwaterside

All Album Tracks: The Jupiter Book of Ballads: Spoken and Sung by Isla Cameron, Jill Balcon, Pauline Letts, John Laurie, etc. >

Altri album

  1. Through Bushes and Briars and Other Songs of the British Isles (Remastered)
  2. Through Bushes And Briars And Other Songs Of The British Isles (Digitally Remastered)
  3. Through Bushes and Briars and Other Songs of the British Isles (Digitally Remastered) (Re-mastered)

All Albums of Isla Cameron >

© 2025 All rights reserved. Rockol.com S.r.l. Website image policy

Rockol

  • Rockol only uses images and photos made available for promotional purposes (“for press use”) by record companies, artist managements and p.r. agencies.
  • Said images are used to exert a right to report and a finality of the criticism, in a degraded mode compliant to copyright laws, and exclusively inclosed in our own informative content.
  • Only non-exclusive images addressed to newspaper use and, in general, copyright-free are accepted.
  • Live photos are published when licensed by photographers whose copyright is quoted.
  • Rockol is available to pay the right holder a fair fee should a published image’s author be unknown at the time of publishing.

Feedback

Please immediately report the presence of images possibly not compliant with the above cases so as to quickly verify an improper use: where confirmed, we would immediately proceed to their removal.