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There is a house in New Orleans

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They call the Ri-si-ing Sun

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And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy

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And God, I know I'm one

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My mother was a tailor

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Sewed my new blu-e jeans

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My father was a gamblin' man

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Down in New O-or-leans