Seven Curses

Artist: Bob Dylan Song: Seven Curses Pitch: +0 cents Key: F [Intro] [Verse 1] Old Reilly stole a stallion    But they caught him and they brought him back And they laid him down on the Jailhouse ground With an iron chain around his neck [Instrumental] [Verse 2] Old Reilly’s daughter got a message    That her father was gonna hang    She rode by night and came by morning    With gold and silver in her hand    [Verse 3] When the judge he saw Reilly’s daughter    His old eyes deepened in his head    Saying gold will never free your father    The price my dear is you instead    [Verse 4] Oh I’m as good as dead cried Reilly    It’s only you that he does crave    And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all Get on your horse and ride away    [Verse 5] Oh father you will surely die    If I don’t take the chance to try    To pay the price and not take your advice For that reason I will have to stay    [Instrumental] [Verse 6] The gallows shadows shook the evening    In the night a hound dog bayed    In the dark the grounds were groaning    In the dark the price was paid [Instrumental] [Verse 7] The next morning she had awoken    She found that the judge had never spoken    She saw that hanging branch a-bending    She saw her father’s body broken [Verse 8] These be seven curses on a judge so cruel    That one doctor will not save him    That two eyes cannot see him And the three healers cannot heal him    [Verse 9 / Outro] That four ears will not hear him    That five walls cannot hide him    That six diggers cannot bury him    And that seven deaths shall never kill him