The good Samaritan, he's getting dressed, he's getting ready for the show. He's going to the carnival tonight on Desolation Row.
Mothers tell your children not to do the things I have done, to spend my life in sin and misery in the House of the Rising Sun.
If you can't lend a hand, then get out of the way.
You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.
When somethin's not right it's wrong.
Fortune or fame, you must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.