{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1493359,"song":"Rising Sun Blues","artist":"Clarence \"Tom\" Ashley","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11273371-rising-sun-blues-chords-by-clarence-tom-ashley/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1493359?type=chord","rating":4.39815,"votes":10,"content":"The Rising Sun Blues (House of the Rising Sun.)\r\nClarence (Tom) Ashley and Gwin Foster on\r\nVOCALION Records in 1933.\r\n(It's said that Ashley learned the song from\r\nhis grandfather, so it was probably written in the\r\n1800's.) (The record is old and scratchy so I hope\r\n         I got it fairly close.)\r\n\r\n\r\n[Intro]\r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 1]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                    [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]   [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThey are a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]                         [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWhere many poor boys to destruction has gone, and me, oh,[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nGod, for one.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 2]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                                           [ch]A[/ch]         [ch]C[/ch]\r\nJust fill the glass up to the brim, let the drinks go merrily [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]\r\naround.[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]C[/ch]      [ch]E[/ch]                                [ch]B[/ch]\r\nWe?ll drink to the life of a rounder, poor boy, who goes from [/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\ntown to town.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 3]\r\n[tab]       [ch]Em[/ch]         [ch]E[/ch]      [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]E[/ch]          [ch]A[/ch]        [ch]C[/ch]   [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nAll in this world does a rambler want, is a suitcase and a trunk.[/tab]\r\n[tab]    [ch]A[/ch]    [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]             [ch]B[/ch]              [ch]E[/ch]     [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\nThe only time he?s satisfied, is when he's on a drunk.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 4]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]                              [ch]A[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]            [ch]A[/ch]\r\nNow, boys don't believe what a young girl tells you, let her eyes [/tab]\r\n[tab]           [ch]E[/ch]\r\nbe blue or brown.[/tab]\r\n[tab][ch]A[/ch]            [ch]C[/ch]       [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]                   [ch]B[/ch]                 \r\nUnless she's on some scaffold high, saying, 'Boys, I can't come [/tab]\r\n[tab] [ch]E[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Dbm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\ndown.'[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Verse 5]\r\n[tab][ch]E[/ch]               [ch]Em[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]  [ch]A[/ch]   [ch]E[/ch]               [ch]A[/ch]       [ch]C[/ch] [ch]B[/ch]    [ch]E[/ch]\r\nI?m going back, back to New Orleans, for my race is almost run..[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]A[/ch]     [ch]D[/ch]   [ch]Dbm[/ch]        [ch]E[/ch]              [ch]B[/ch]                [ch]E[/ch]\r\nto spend the rest of my wicked life, beneath the Rising Sun.[/tab]\r\n\r\n\r\n[Outro] \r\n[ch]E[/ch] [ch]B[/ch] [ch]E[/ch] [ch]Dbm[/ch] [ch]E[/ch]\r\n\r\n\r\nA thirties smash from Kraziekhat.","plain_text":"The Rising Sun Blues (House of the Rising Sun.)\nClarence (Tom) Ashley and Gwin Foster on\nVOCALION Records in 1933.\n(It's said that Ashley learned the song from\nhis grandfather, so it was probably written in the\n1800's.) (The record is old and scratchy so I hope\n         I got it fairly close.)\n\n\n[Intro]\nE B E\n\n\n[Verse 1]\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 2]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 3]\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 4]\n\n\n\n\n\n\n[Verse 5]\n\n\n\n\n[Outro] \nE B E Dbm E\n\n\nA thirties smash from Kraziekhat.","chords":["E","B","A","C","Am","Em","Dbm","D"],"chord_diagrams":{"A":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,1,2,3,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,2,0]},"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"B":{"barres":[2],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,1,2,3,4,1],"frets":[-1,2,4,4,4,2]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"D":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,1,3,2],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,2]},"E":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,1,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,1,0,0]},"Em":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,2,3,0,0,0],"frets":[0,2,2,0,0,0]}}}