In the Animals' recording the organ often plays 7th chords, 
when the guitar does not.
[Intro]
| Am | C | D | F | 
| Am | E | Am | E |
[Strophe]
      Am   C        D          F 
There is a house in New Orleans 
      Am       C      E 
They call the "Rising Sun" 
         Am       C       D           F 
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy 
    Am     E           Am   C   D   F   Am   E   Am   E   
And God, I know, I'm one                (organ plays E7)
[Strophe]
   Am     C     D        F 
My mother was a tailor (organ: F7)  
    Am       C        E 
She sewed my new blue jeans (organ: E7)  
   Am     C     D        F 
My father was a gambling man 
Am      E       Am   C   D   F   Am   E   Am   E   
Down in New Orleans.             (organ plays E7)
[Strophe]
        Am   C       D       F 
Now the only thing a gambler needs (organ: F7)  
     Am       C     E 
Is a suitcase and a trunk (organ: E7)  
        Am   C     D         F 
And the only time, he's satisfied,  
   Am        E      Am   C   D   F   Am   E   Am   E   
Is when he's on a drunk              (organ plays E7)
[Solo]
| Am | C | D | F | 
| Am | C | E | % | 
| Am | C | D | F | 
| Am | E | 
| Am | C/E | D | F | 
| Am | E | Am | E |
[Strophe]
   Am     C          D           F 
O, mother, tell your children (organ: F7)  
       Am      C      E 
Not to do what I have done (organ: E7)  
Am         C        D           F 
Spend your lives in sin and misery 
       Am       E       Am   C   D   F   Am   E   Am   E   
In the House of Rising Sun              (organ plays E7)
[Strophe]
            Am       C      D            F 
Well, I got one foot on the platform (organ plays F7) 
    Am         C      E 
The other foot on the train (organ: E7)  
    Am    C       D     F 
I'm going back to New Orleans (organ: F7)  
   Am        E          Am   C   D   F   Am   E   Am   E   
To wear that ball and chain              (organ plays E7#9)
[Strophe]
            Am   C        D             F 
Well, there is a house in New Orleans (organ: F7)  
     Am        C      E 
They call the "Rising Sun"  (organ: E7)  
         Am       C       D           F 
And it's been the ruin of many a poor boy 
    Am     E7        Am   C   D   F7   Am   E7   
And God, I know, I'm one
[Outro]
| Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am | Dm |

 
| Am | Dm | Am | Dm | Am 
(ritardando)     (organ plays Am9; guitar equivalent: x-0-5-5-5-7)