House of the Rising Sun Lyrics by Woody Guthrie from the Folk Go-Go album- including song video, artist biography, translations and more: There is a house in New Orleans You call the Rising Sun It's been the ruin of many a poor soul And me, oh God, I'm… Login The STANDS4 Network ABBREVIATIONS ANAGRAMS BIOGRAPHIES CALCULATORS CONVERSIONS The tragedy of "House of the Rising Sun" is that the narrator seems to have lost his free will. He knows that the house will be his damnation, yet he is en route while he is telling his sad story. [Verse 1] There is a house in New Orleans They call the Rising Sun And it's been the ruin of many poor soul And, Lord, my father's one My mother, she's a tailor She sews those new blue jeans To Gy8s4l.