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House Of Rising Sun

Track 1Guitar
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Tuning: E A D G B E

Capo: No capo

BPM: 200

    Intro]
    Am                                  C                                    D
e|----------------------|0-------------------|---------------0----|--------------------|-----2----2---------|
B|-----------------1----|-----1--------------|----------1---------|1-------------------|3--------------3----|
G|------------2---------|----------2---------|-----0--------------|-----0---------2----|--------------------|
D|-------2--------------|--------------------|2-------------------|----------0---------|--------------------|
A|--0-------------------|---------------3----|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|
E|----------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|--------------------|

         F                                    Am                                  E
e|----------------------|1----1--------------|--------------------|0-------------------|--------------------|
B|-----------------1----|----------1---------|---------------1----|-----1--------------|---------------0----|
G|--2---------2---------|---------------2----|----------2---------|----------2---------|----------1---------|
D|-------3--------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|--------------------|-----2--------------|
A|----------------------|--------------------|0-------------------|--------------------|2-------------------|
E|----------------------|--------------------|--------------------|---------------0----|--------------------|

[ preview ends at bar 10 — the interactive score has the rest ]

                                                                                        [Verse]
              Am                                   E                                    Am

                   C                                    D                                    F

                         There is a house in New Orleans
                         Am                                  C                                    E

                                                                   they call the Rising Sun
                              E                                    Am                                  C

                                   D                                    F

    And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    Am                                  E                                    Am

                                              And, God, I know I'm one
                                              [Interlude]
         C                                    D                                   F

              Am                                   E                                    Am

                   E

          [Verse 2]
          Am                                  C                                    D

                                                                   My mother was a tailor
                              F                                    Am                                  C

                                   E                                    E

    She sewed my new blue jeans
    Am                                  C                                    D

                                              My father was a gamblin' man
         F                                    Am                                  E

                                                                                        Down in New Orleans
                                                                                        [Interlude]
              Am                                   C                                    D

                   F                                    Am                                   E

                         Am                                  E

                                                    [Verse 3]
                                                    Am                                  C

                                   D                                    F

    Now the only thing a gambler needs
    Am                                  C                                    E

                                              is a suitcase and a trunk
         E                                    Am                                  C

                                                                                        And the only time that he's satisfied
              D                                    F                                    Am

                   E                                    Am                                   C

                         is when he's all drunk
                         [Interlude]
                         D                                   F                                    Am

                              E                                    Am                                  E

    [Organ solo]
    [Verse 4]
    Am                                  C                                    D

                                              Oh, mother, tell your children
         F                                    Am                                  C

                                                                                        not to do what I have done
              E                                    E                                    Am

                   C                                    D                                    F

                         spend your lives in sin and misery
                         Am                                  E                                    Am

                                                                   in the house of the Rising Sun
                                                                   [Interlude]
                              C                                    D                                   F

                                   Am                                   E

    Am                                  E

                               [Verse 5]
                               Note: at this point, if you want, you can start strumming, D D D U D D D to the same
                               as you were picking. This is what the guitarist in the video does, but in the recording,
                               picking continues.
                               Am                                  C

                                                                                        Well I've got one foot on the platform
              D                                    F                                    Am

                   C                                    E                                    E

                         the other on the train
                         Am                                  C                                    D

                                                                   I'm going back to New Orleans
                              F                                    Am                                  E

                                   Am                                   C

    to wear that ball and chain
    [Interlude]
    D                                   F                                    Am

         E                                    Am                                  E

                                                                         [Verse 6]
                                                                         Am

                   C                                    D                                    F

                         There is a house in New Orleans
                         Am                                  C                                    E

                                                                   they call the Rising Sun
                              E                                    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
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Instruments
Guitar
Tracks
1
Tempo
200 BPM
Time signature
4/4
Tuning
E A D G B E
Key
A minor
Difficulty
Beginner
Bars
252
Frets used
Frets 0-3
Published 2 Mar 2021

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House Of Rising Sun is a Guitar score arranged by Carl Stacey. Read it as tablature or as standard sheet music notation, play it back at any tempo, and practise it a bar at a time.

It is written in 4/4 at 200 BPM. It is in A minor, and the arrangement runs 252 bars. We grade it beginner — it stays between frets 0 and 3. It is written as plain fretted notes, with no bends, slides or hammer-ons to learn first.

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