House of the Rising Sun - The Animals
Tab by Nathan Lambert, based on the tab by Chayes.
I made the tab more compact so I could see the lyrics better, but I left the
intro chords as an example of the picking pattern. The *'s are where you should
be keeping time somehow! In the comments section of another tab, some people said
they were having trouble with the "extra" notes, so I put those in parentheses ().
Playing them does sound more like the song, but people probably won't notice if
you leave them out ;) I also fixed how the chords lined up with the lyrics to
something that makes more sense to me. Hope this helps someone. Cheers!
Standard tuning
No capo
Intro
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
e|--------0----------------0-------------(2)-2-------------(1)-1------------|
B|-------1--1-------------1--1-----------3-----3-----------1-----1----------|
G|------2-----2----------0-----0--------2--------2--------2--------2--------|
D|----(2)--------------(2)---------(2)-0-------------(0)-3------------------|
A|----0------------(2)-3----------------------------------------------------|
E|-(0)----------------------------------------------------------------------|
[Am] [E] [Am] [E]
e|--------0------------------------------0----------------------------------|
B|-------1--1------------0--------------1--1----------------0---------------|
G|------2-----2---------1--1-----------2-----2-------------1--1-------------|
D|----(2)--------------2-----2-------(2)------------------2-----2-----------|
A|----0--------------(2)-------------0------------------(2)-----------------|
E|-(0)-----------(0)-0------------(0)---------------(0)-0-------------------|
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]
And, God, I know I'm one
Interlude
[D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E]
Verse 2
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
My mother was a tailor
[Am] [C] [E] [E]
She sewed my new blue jeans
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
My father was a gamblin' man
[Am] [E] [Am] [C]
Down in New Orleans
Interlude
[D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E]
Verse 3
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Now the only thing a gambler needs
[Am] [C] [E] [E]
is a suitcase and a trunk
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
And the only time that he's satisfied
[Am] [E] [Am] [C]
is when he's on a drunk
Interlude
[D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E]
(Organ solo)
Verse 4
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Oh, mother, tell your children
[Am] [C] [E] [E]
not to do what I have done
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
spend your lives in sin and misery
[Am] [E] [Am] [C]
in the house of the Rising Sun
Interlude
[D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E]
Verse 5
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Well I've got one foot on the platform
[Am] [C] [E] [E]
the other foot on the train
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
I'm going back to New Orleans
[Am] [E] [Am] [C]
to wear that ball and chain
Interlude
[D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E]
Verse 6
[Am] [C] [D] [F]
Well 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]
And, God, I know I'm one
Outro
Strum each of these chords (same chords as Interlude) once while the
organ plays, and end on an Am if you want.
[D] [F] [Am] [E] [Am] [E] [Am]
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| (n) Ghost note
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