Seven Curses

Seven Curses Lyrics

Song Seven Curses
Artist Bob Dylan
Album The Bootleg Series Vol. 9 - The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964
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[00:05.77] Old reilly stole a stallion
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[00:11.81] But they caught him and they brought him back
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[00:17.97] And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground
[00:23.08] With an iron chain around his neck.
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[00:31.82] Old reillys daughter got a message
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[00:37.31] That her father was goin to hang.
[00:41.99] She rode by night and came by morning
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[00:46.88] With gold and silver in her hand.
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[00:55.25] When the judge he saw reillys daughter
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[01:00.37] His old eyes deepened in his head,
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[01:04.98] Sayin, gold will never free your father,
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[01:10.23] The price, my dear, is you instead.
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[01:18.71] Oh Im as good as dead, cried reilly,
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[01:23.58] Its only you that he does crave
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[01:28.19] And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all.
[01:33.35] Get on your horse and ride away.
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[01:42.86] Oh father you will surely die
[01:47.85] If I dont take the chance to try
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[01:52.53] And pay the price and not take your advice.
[01:57.46] For that reason I will have to stay.
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[02:08.75] The gallows shadows shook the evening,
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[02:13.94] In the night a hound dog bayed,
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[02:18.93] In the night the grounds were groanin,
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[02:23.74] In the night the price was paid.
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[02:33.10] The next mornin she had awoken
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[02:37.91] To know that the judge had never spoken.
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[02:42.59] She saw that hangin branch a-bendin,
[02:47.27] She saw her fathers body broken.
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[02:57.13] These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:
[03:01.80] That one doctor will not save him,
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[03:09.91] That two healers will not heal him,
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[03:14.39] That three eyes will not see him.
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[03:21.57] That four ears will not hear him,
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[03:26.31] That five walls will not hide him,
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[03:31.18] That six diggers will not bury him
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[03:35.76] And that seven deaths shall never kill him.
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