LYRIC

I didn’t originally intend to post this. It was for my own reference,

a person in another forum was asking about tabs for this, so here it is.


/ and mean bend up to the note or bend down from the note. (The backward

slash I typed above wouldn’t show up when I posted the tab.) “g” means gliss.

Well, none of the backslashes show up. Just listen to the video.


G Harp

-4 -6 -1 -2” -3’ -2” -1 -1

There is a house in New Or-leans


-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -3’

They call the Ris-ing Sun


-4 -4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -3” -1 X -2”

And it’s been the ruin of ma- ny poor boy


-1 -1 -1-1’ -1’ -1

And God I know I’m one


*************************************


-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -2” -1

My mo-ther was a tai-lor


-4 -4 -4 4 -3”/-3’

She sewed my new blue-jeans


-(gliss from -6)-

-8 -8 -8 -8 7 /-6 /-6 -4 -5

My fa-ther was a gamb- lin’ man


-4 -4 4 -3’ (-4 -5) -4

Down in New Or- leans


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-8 -8 -8 -8 7 -6 6 -4 -5

Now the on-ly thing a gam-bler needs


-8 -8 -8 -8 7 -6 -6

Is a suit-case and a trunk


-8 -8 -8 -8 7 g-6 g-6 -4 -5

And the on-ly time he’s sa- tis-fied


(-4 -5) -4 -4 -4’ -3’(-4 -5)

Is when he’s on a drunk


****************************Low D Harp


-4 -2 -2 -3’ -2 4 -3

Oh mother go tell your chil-dren


-2 -3’ -2 4 -3 -2 -3’ 4 (-4 -5 shake)

Oh not to do what I have done


-4 (-4 -5) -2 -3 4 -3 -2 -3’ 4 -2

Oh spend your lives in sin and mi-se- ry


-1 -1 -2 -2” -1’ -2

Down in New Or-leans


*************************Solo D Harp

-2 -3” -3’ -3” -4 -3 -2

~

/-4 -5g -2 -3” 4


-2 -3” -3’ -3” -4 -3 -2

~

/-4 -3 -2 -3” 4 -4


***********************************************


-4’ -4 /-5 5 -4 4 -3’ -2


-2 -2 -2 -4’ 4 -3’ -2

~

-3 -2 -2” -2 -3’ -2

~

-1’ -1 -2” -2 -3’ 4 -3’ /-4 -5 6 -5 -4 4 -3’


***********************************************


-4 -5 6 /-6 6 -5 6 -5 4 -4


-2 -3’ -4 -2 -2 -2” -2 -4


-4’ -4 /-5 -4 -5 -4 /-5

–slide— –(7X)–

-4 -4’ -4 -4’ -4 -4’ -3’ -4’ -4 -5 -4 -5


***********************************************


9 8 -8 8 -8 -9 7 -6 6

-5 -4’ 4 -3’ -3” -2 -3’ 4 -3’

-5 /-4 -5 -2 -3// -2 -3’ -2”/-2” -1 -2”

-1 -2”/ -3’/ 4 -3’ -5 -4’ -4//

/-4 4 -3’ -2 -2”/ -3’ -2


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/(-4 -5) /(-4 -5) /(-4 -5) /-4 /-4 /-4


~ -5 (6X. Different speeds.)

-4 -4 4 -3’ -2 -3” 4 -3” [-4 -5 -4 -3]

-4 (-3 -4) (-3’ -4’)/// (-4 -5)


56 6 6 -5 -4 -5 6 -5 -6’

~

6 -5 -4 56 -5 -4 -4’ 4 -3” -3’


-4’ -4 -5 -4’ -4 -4’ -3 -2 -3”


-3’ 4 -3’ -2 -3’ 4 -3’


-5 4 -4 4 -3 -2 -1


-4’ -3” -2 -2” -2 -2” -1/ -2 -2” -1 -2”


***********************************************


/9 /9 /9 9 -10 9 10’ /10 /10 /10


9 -10 9 /10 /10 /10 /10 /10 /10


9 /9 /9 9 -10 9 /10 /10


9 -10 9 /10 /10 /10 /9 8 -8 9


****************************G Harp


-4 -6 -1 -2” -3’ -2” -1 -1

I’ve got one foot on the plat-form


-4 -4 -4 4 -3” -3’

The o-ther on the train


-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -3” -1 -2”

I’m go-in’ back to New Or-leans


-1’ -1 -1 -1’ -1’ -1

To wear that ball and chain


****************************************


-4 -4 -4 4 -3’ -2” -1’ -1

There is a house in New Or-leans


-4 -4 -4 4 -3” -3’

They call the Ris-ing Sun


-8 -8 -8 7 -6 -6 -4 -5

It’s been the ruin of ma-ny boy


-4 -4 4 -3’ -4

God I know I’m one


************************Low D Harp

Play softly:


Mostly half notes:


-1 -2 -3” 4 -4

(1/16th note)


-2 -3” 4 -2


-1 -2 -3” 4 -4

(1/16th note)


-2 -1 -2

(3 beats)


Repeat




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