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My mother was a tailor
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She sewed my new blue jeans
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My father was a gamblin' man
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Well down in New Orleans
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Now the only thing a gambler needs
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Is a suitcase and a gun
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And the only time he's satisfied
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Is when he's on the run
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Oh mothers tell your children
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Not to do what I have done
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Spend your lives in sin and misery
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In the house of the risin' sun
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There is a house in New Orleans
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They call the Risin' Sun
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
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And God I know that I'm one
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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy
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And God I know, well I know I'm one
