The Animals House Of The Rising Sun Lyrics Meaning

There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And its been the ruin of many a poor boy And God I know Im one My mother was a tailor Sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin man Down in New Orleans Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and trunk And the only time hes satisfied Is when hes on a drunk Oh mother tell your children Not to do what I have done Spend your lives in sin and misery In the House of the Rising Sun.

The animals house of the rising sun lyrics meaning. Comment and share your favourite lyrics. My mother was a tailor sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gambling man down in New Orleans. And God I know Im one.

Our interpretation of the song is that the protagonist is a gambling man and the House Of The Rising Sun a Casino in New Orleans. Well I got one foot on the platform. Misheard lyrics also called mondegreens occur when people misunderstand the lyrics in a song.

Beneath that Rising Sun Animals Version. My mother was a tailor She sewed my new blue jeans My father was a gamblin man Down in New Orleans. In the house of the rising sun.

Verse 1 My mother was a tailor. To wear that ball and chain. Watch official video print or download text in PDF.

1 The song is about a brothel in New Orleans. Many versions also urge a sibling or parents and children to avoid the same fate. The best known version of the song was done by the Animals in 1965.

The rising sun has for years been a symbol for brothels in British and American ballads and sung mostly by both black and white Southern musicians. Rising Sun is an old british term for whore house. Now the only thing a gambler needs Is a suitcase and a trunk And the only time hes satisfied Is when hes on a drunk.