1. Considering the countless number of minors whose lives have been ruined by the House of the Rising Sun, parents should write to their legislators to have the place demolished, or at least have its license to sell hard liquor revoked.
2. Proprietors of the House of the Rising Sun should seriously consider adding other attractions to serve a more upscale clientele.
3. Any decent establishment has a good website. It can frustrating for people to google “House of the Rising Sun” only to find out there’s no information available online or even a Multiply site.
4. If you’re “mother is a tailor” and your “father was a gamblin’ man,” maybe you should’ve done well in school to mitigate the unfortunate circumstances of your early childhood.
5. The “only thing a gambler needs” is not a “suitcase or and trunk” but an awful lot of disposable income to spend, or at least a good credit standing.
6. Mothers should tell their children that anyone who spends his life “in sin and misery, in the House of the Rising Sun” is a total fuck-up.
7. You should go back to New Orleans for wonderful jazz music and authentic Cajun cuisine, not to “wear that ball and chain.” (edg)