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    URGENT:
    
    Can anyone tell me all the verses of the Animals' "House of the Rising
    Sun", please?
    
    I only know four.
    
    I need to know by tonight.
    
    Here's the four I know:
    
    	There is a house in New Orleans
    	They call the Rising Sun
    	And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
    	And, God, I know I'm one.
    
    	My mother was a tailor
    	Sewed my new blue jeans
    	My father was a gambling man
    	Down in New Orleans
    
    	And the only thing a gambler needs
    	Is a suitcase and a trunk
    	And the only time he'd be satisfied
    	Is when he's all drunk
    
    	Oh, mother's tell your children
    	Not to do what I have done
    	And spend their lives in sincere misery
    	At the house of the Rising Sun.
    
    Well that's roughly it. I also need to know if those verses are in the
    right order.
    
    Alice T.
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| 887.1 | If I remember correctly... | WARHED::GILLILAND | Thu Aug 15 1991 15:59 | 9 | |
|     You've got it all right and in the correct order so far, just one more
    verse as I remember....
    
    I got one foot on the platform,
    The other foot on the train,
    I'm going back to New Orleans,
    To wear that ball and chain.
    
    Phil Gill
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| 887.2 | Addendum | WARHED::GILLILAND | Thu Aug 15 1991 16:05 | 3 | |
|     Oh, and its `sin and misery' not `sincere misery'!
    
    Phil Gill
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| 887.3 | CHEFS::BRIGGSR | Four Soft Tyres on a Muddy Road | Fri Aug 16 1991 10:20 | 6 | |
|     
    And its 'Oh Mother, tell your children'. At least it is according to
    the sheet music. But then seeing as its a 'trad' song there presumably
    is no 'right' lyrics.
    
    Richard
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