The House Of the Rising Sun (Trad, arrangement Price, 1964)

q=95

(e=e.)

q=95

(e=e.)

                                    A‹

C

 2   0 

1

0

1

D

 0 3 

2

1

0

1

0

 2 0 

F

3

2

3

2

 2 3 

1

1

1

2

                                    There  2 1 0 1 2  1 0 0 0 0  2 1 0 1 2  1 0 0 0 0 0  0  0  0   5

A‹

E

A‹

E

                                     9

A‹

 2   0 

C

is

D

a house

1

0

1

 0 3 

2

F

in New Or -

1

0

1

0

 2 0 

leans

3

2

3

2

 2 3 

They

1

1

1

2

                                    call the Ri sing Sun And it's 0 0 0 0      2 1 1 2  0 1 1 0  1 0 0 0  1 0 0 0 3  0  0  0   13

A‹

C

E

Sheet Music by Jan Deis-Horton www.budestrings.co.uk

E

                                    

2

17

A‹

C

been

   0 

D

the ruin

1

2

0

1

2

  3 

of

1

0

0

1

0

F

ma - ny a

  0 

poor

2

3

2

3

boy

And

  3 

2

1

1

2

1

2

                                   lord knows I am one. 0 0  2 1 1 2  1 0 0 0  2 1 0 1 2  0 1 0 1 0 0 3  0  0    21

A‹

E

A‹

C

                                     2 3 2 3 2  2 1 1 1 2  2 1 0 1 2  1 0 0 0 0 0 3 0   0    25

D

F

A‹

                   2 1 0 1 2  1 0 0 0 0  0  0  29

A‹

E

E

             A‹

 

0 1 2

C

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

                                                  33

D



2 3 2

F

2 3 2

2 3 2

2 3 2

2 3 2

2 3 2

1 1 2

A‹

1 1 2

1 1 2

1 1 2

1 1 2

1 1 2

0 1 2

C

0 1 2

0 1 2

Sheet Music by Jan Deis-Horton www.budestrings.co.uk

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

                                                  37

E



0 0 1

E

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

A‹

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

C

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

0 1 0

                                                  41

D



2 3 2

F

2 3 2

2 3 2

2 3 2

2 3 2

2 3 2

1 1 2

A‹

1 1 2

1 1 2

1 1 2

1 1 2

1 1 2

E

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

                          45

A‹



0 1 2

E

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

My mother was a tailor She sewed my new bluejeans 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 he's satisfied Is when he's on a drunk ------ organ solo -----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 Well, I got one foot on the platform The other foot on the train I'm goin' back to New Orleans To wear that ball and chain Repeat verse 1 In the original arrangement by the animals Hilton Valentine plays the guitar with a plectrum, strumming slowly through the chords, with the result that some notes have to be doubled up in order to make the rhythm work. What I have done here is to break the pattern down into a bass note which lasts each time for a whole bar, and five picked notes which cycle up and down through the G,B and top E strings. The bass note can be picked with the thumb, and the other notes with the first, second and third fingers. Later on for the solo, the chords are strummed with alternating rests - therefore six downstrokes per bar. For the final verse the fingerpicking pattern returns.

Sheet Music by Jan Deis-Horton www.budestrings.co.uk

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 1 2

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1

0 0 1









0 0 1

3