Seven Curses

Song Seven Curses
Artist Bob Dylan
Album Ten Of Swords

Lyrics

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[00:03.72] Old Reilly stole a stallion
[00:09.85] But they caught him and they brought him back
[00:15.67] And they laid him down in the jailhouse ground
[00:21.82] With an iron chain around his neck.
[00:30.93] Old reilly's daughter got a message
[00:35.33] That her father was goin' to hang.
[00:40.79] She rode by night and came by morning
[00:45.55] With gold and silver in her hand.
[00:52.98] When the judge he saw Reilly's daughter
[00:59.36] His old eyes deepened in his head,
[01:03.71] Sayin':"Gold will never free your father,
[01:08.26] The price, my dear, is you instead."
[01:15.31] "Oh I'm as good as dead," cried Reilly,
[01:22.54] "It's only you that he does crave
[01:27.20] And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all.
[01:31.97] Get on your horse and ride away."
[01:39.35] "Oh father you will surely die
[01:46.49] If I dont take the chance to try
[01:52.21] And pay the price and not take your advice.
[01:56.10] For that reason I will have to stay."
[02:07.50] The gallows' shadows shook the evening,
[02:13.07] In the night a hound dog bayed,
[02:17.32] In the night the grounds were groanin,
[02:22.03] In the night the price was paid.
[02:30.63] The next morning she had awoken
[02:37.06] She found out that the judge had never spoken.
[02:41.46] She saw that hangin' branch abandoned,
[02:46.77] She saw her father's body broken.
[02:55.96] These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:
[03:01.30] That one doctor cannot save him,
[03:06.32] That two healers cannot heal him,
[03:13.34] And that three eyes cannot see him.
[03:21.08] That four ears cannot hear him,
[03:25.58] That five walls cannot hide him,
[03:30.14] That six diggers cannot bury him,
[03:35.05] And that seven deaths shall never kill him.