Snakefarm - Rising Sun lyrics

One foot is on the platform And one foot is on the train I'm going back to New Orleans To where that ball and chain If I had listened to what Mamma said I'd be at home today But I was so young and foolish, Lord I let a gambler lead me astray My mother was a tailor; She sowed my new blue jeans My father, was a gambling man Way down in New Orleans Go tell my baby sister Not to do like I have done She'll spend her life in sheer 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 the rest of my life Beneath the Rising Sun There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a And me, I know I'm one