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                    HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN - The Animals
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Tab by Nathan Lambert, based on the tab by Chayes.

I made some changes to Chayes' tab. Mainly, I made it 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 your (probably drunk) friends won't care if you
leave em 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!

Tuning: Standard

Intro
      *   *            *   *           *     *           *     *
    Am (x02210@1)            C (x32010@1)             D (xx0232@1)               Fe|--------0----------------0-------------(2)-2-------------(1)-1------------| (133211@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 (x02210@1)          E (022100@1)              Am (x02210@1)              Ee|--------0------------------------------0----------------------------------| (022100@1)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-------------------|

First verse
          Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)         F (133211@1)   There is a house in New Orleans
         Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)    E (022100@1)  E (022100@1)   they call the Rising Sun
             Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)         F (133211@1)   And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
         Am (x02210@1)   E (022100@1)      Am (x02210@1)  C (x32010@1)   And, God, I know I'm one

Interlude
    D (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1)Second verse
       Am (x02210@1)   C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)    F (133211@1)   My mother was a tailor
        Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)      E (022100@1)   E (022100@1)   She sewed my new blue jeans
       Am (x02210@1)   C (x32010@1)   D (xx0232@1)      F (133211@1)   My father was a gamblin' man
    Am (x02210@1)    E (022100@1)     Am (x02210@1)   C (x32010@1)   Down in New Orleans

Interlude
    D (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1)Third verse
            Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)     F (133211@1)   Now the only thing a gambler needs
         Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)   E (022100@1)   E (022100@1)   is a suitcase and a trunk
            Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1)       D (xx0232@1)         F (133211@1)   And the only time that he's satisfied
       Am (x02210@1)      E (022100@1)  Am (x02210@1)  C (x32010@1)   is when he's on a drunk

Interlude
    D (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1)Organ solo

Fourth verse
        Am (x02210@1)   C (x32010@1)        D (xx0232@1)      F (133211@1)   Oh, mother, tell your children
           Am (x02210@1)    C (x32010@1)    E (022100@1)  E (022100@1)   not to do what I have done
    Am (x02210@1)       C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)          F (133211@1)   spend your lives in sin and misery
           Am (x02210@1)         E (022100@1)    Am (x02210@1)  C (x32010@1)   in the house of the Rising Sun

Interlude
    D (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1)Fifth verse
                  Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)    D (xx0232@1)       F (133211@1)   Well I've got one foot on the platform
        Am (x02210@1)       C (x32010@1)    E (022100@1)   E (022100@1)   the other foot on the train
        Am (x02210@1)  C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)       F (133211@1)   I'm going back to New Orleans
       Am (x02210@1)      E (022100@1)      Am (x02210@1)  C (x32010@1)   to wear that ball and chain

Interlude
    D (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1)Sixth verse
               Am (x02210@1) C (x32010@1)      D (xx0232@1)    F (133211@1)   Well There is a house in New Orleans
         Am (x02210@1)     C (x32010@1)    E (022100@1)  E (022100@1)   they call the Rising Sun
        Am (x02210@1)          C (x32010@1)     D (xx0232@1)         F (133211@1)   And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
         Am (x02210@1)   E (022100@1)      Am (x02210@1)  C (x32010@1)   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 (xx0232@1) F (133211@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1) E (022100@1) Am (x02210@1)===============================================================================