The Animals House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics. My lover was a gambling one. My mother was a tailor.

My lover was a gambling one. The animals’ version of “the house of the rising sun” is the most successful. And amongst its accolades is being placed on rolling stone’s “500 greatest songs of all time”.

There is a house in new orleans they call the rising sun and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and god i know i'm one my mother was a tailor she sewed my new bluejeans my father was a gamblin' man down in new orleans

The finger picking can be hard for beginning guitarists because the little finger is used to play the high e string, that's why i included 2 versions on this page: In 1964, the british rock group the animals released the track “the house of the rising sun,” which quickly topped the charts all over the world. Also called house of the rising sun or occasionally rising sun blues, it tells of a life gone wrong in new orleans. It is not known whether or not the house described in the lyrics was an actual or a fictitious place.