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; guitar equivalent: x-0-5-5-5-7)
