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Rising Sun Waltz

from Demo by Bullfrog Pollywog

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traditional, arranged by nick turncoat

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there is a house in new orleans
that they call the rising sun.
it's been the ruin of many poor boys,
and lord, i know that i'm one.

my lover was a tailor;
she sowed my new blue jeans,
but lord, i am just a ramblin' man
on the streets down in new orleans.

there isn't much that a rambler needs
save a suitcase and a trunk,
and the only time that i'm satisfied,
oh lord, is when i'm drunk.

so, fill the glass up to the brim?
fuck it! just pass the bottle around,
drink to my story of a drunken poor boy
aimlessly tramping from town to town.

if i'd listened to what my mother said,
i'd have a home today,
but being so young and foolish, oh lord,
instead, i'm just a stray.

so, i've one hand on the ladder now,
and one foot on the train,
and i'm goin' back down to new orleans
to wear my ball and chain.

so, mothers, tell your children
not to do as i have done.
live a life of sin and misery
at the house of the rising sun.

so, now i'm back down in new orleans,
and i think that my race is run.
i'll be sleeping out on these old streets tonight,
beneath, beneath the rising sun.

there is a house in new orleans
that they call the rising sun.
it's been the ruin of many poor boys,
and lord, i know that i'm one.

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from Demo, released December 12, 2014

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Bullfrog Pollywog Lansing Charter Township, Michigan

rubber tramps, hitchhikers, trainhoppers, turncoats... singing traditional folk songs the way they were meant to be sang.

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