JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "The House of the Rising Sun" merupakan lagu hit lawas yang dinyanyikan oleh band The Animals.
Singel tersebut awalnya adalah lagu folk tradisional yang dibawakan kembali oleh The Animals pada 1964 silam.
Lagu yang diaransemen ulang menjadi rock itu mendapatkan Grammy Hall of Fame Award dan masuk berbagai daftar lagu terbaik seperti versi Rolling Stone dan Recording Industry Association of America atau RIAA.
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Simak lirik dan chord lagu "The House of the Rising Sun" oleh The Animals berikut ini.
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There is a house in New Orleans
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They call the "Rising Sun"
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
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And God, I know, I'm one
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My mother was a tailor
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She sewed my new blue jeans
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My father was a gambling man
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Down in New Orleans
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Now the only thing a gambler needs
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Is a suitcase and a trunk
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And the only time, he's satisfied,
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Is when he's on a drunk
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O, mother, tell your children
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Not to do what I have done
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Spend your lives in sin and misery
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In the House of Rising Sun
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Well, I got one foot on the platform
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The other foot on the train
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I'm going back to New Orleans
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To wear that ball and chain
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Well, there is a house in New Orleans
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They call the "Rising Sun"
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
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And God, I know, I'm one