Joan Baez
the house of the risin sun
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There is a house in New Orleans,
they call the rising sun.
It's been the ruin for many a poor girl, and me, oh Lord, I'm one.
My mother was a taylor, she sewed our new blue jeans,
my father was a gambling man, down in New Orleans.
If I had listened to what my mother said,
I'd have been at home today,
but I was young and foolish, oh, God, let a rambler lead me astray.
Oh Mothers, tell your children not to do what I have done,
to spend their lives in sin and misery
in the house of the rising sun.
I'm going back to New Orleans, my race is almost run,
I'm going back to spend my life beneath the rising sun.
- Album:
- Songbird
- Day After Tomorrow
- Gulf Winds
- Miscellaneous
- Play Me Backwards
- Come From The Shadows
- Born To The Breed A Tribute To Judy Collins
- Carry It On
- One Day At A Time
- Joan Baez
- Joan Baez Vol. 2
- Dark Chords On A Big Guitar
- Joan Baez 5
- Blessed Are...
- Joan
- Gone From Danger
- Where Are You Now My Son?
- Speaking Of Dreams
- Gracias A La Vida
- How Sweet The Sound