House Of The Rising Sun Chords & Tabs

by The Animals

[Version Description]
Strumming Patterns:
Suggested pattern:
BPM: 234
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [3, 202, 1, 101, 1, 101, 3, 202, 1, 101, 1, 101]
Alternate strum pattern:
BPM: 234
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [3, 202, 202, 101, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 202]
Alternate strum pattern 2:
BPM: 234
Denominator: 8
Triplet: No
Measures: [1, 202, 1, 101, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 202, 1, 202]
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
And God, I know, I'm one

[Coda]
  Am   DmAm
(a tempo)
Am  Dm   Am   Dm   Am                                             
(ritardando)     (organ plays Am9; guitar equivalent: x-0-5-5-5-7)