To be sung at fromer Assemblywoman Diane Gordon's Welcome Home Party
There is a house in southern Queens
They call the Rising Sum
And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl
And God I know I'm one
Oh mother tell your children
Not to do what I have done
Spend your lives in sin and misery
Over the House of the Rising Sum
Well, I got one foot on the platform
The other is in chains
I'm goin' far from southern Queens
To wear that ball and chain
Well, there is a house in southern Queens
They call the Rising Sum
And it's been the ruin of many a poor girl
And God I know I'm one