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My best friend - is a gambler -

he goes from - town to town -

He's satisfied - when he -

drinks his liquor down

He fills his - glasses and -

he passes - them and his -

only pleasure - is when he -

is drunk

Mother, tell your children

not to do what I have done

Spend your life sincerely in misery

In the house of the Rising Sun

Well, it's one foot on the platform

and the other's on the train

Well, I'm going  back to New Orleans

to wear that ball and chain

I'm going, back to New Orleans

My race is almost run

I'm going there to spend my life

beneath that Rising Sun

I'm going there to spend my life

beneath that Rising Sun

down in New Orleans