Seven Curses-Bob Dylan

[00:09.96]Old Reilly stole a stallion [00:17.35]But they caught him and they brought him back [00:24.04]And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground [00:28.59]With an iron chain around his neck. [00:36.40]Old reilly's daughter got a message [00:42.78]That her father was gonna hang. [00:50.32]She rode by night and came by morning [00:54.62]With gold and silver in her hand. [01:01.00]When the judge he saw Reilly's daughter [01:07.83]His old eyes deepened in his head, [01:13.80]Sayin':"Gold will never free your father, [01:20.38]The price, my dear, is you instead." [01:26.17]"Oh I'm as good as dead," cried Reilly, [01:32.28]"It's only you that he does crave [01:38.15]And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all. [01:43.28]Get on your horse and ride away." [01:49.86]"Oh father you will surely die [01:55.55]If I dont take the chance and try [01:59.92]To pay the price and not take your advice. [02:05.09]For that reason I will have to stay." [02:13.18]The gallows' shadows shook the evening, [02:20.87]In the night a hound dog bayed, [02:25.41]In the dark the grounds were groanin, [02:28.65]In the dark the price was paid. [02:38.22]The next morning when she had awoken [02:45.81]She found out that the judge had never spoken. [02:50.82]She saw that hangin' branch abandoned, [02:55.98]She saw her father's body broken. [03:04.69]These be seven curses on a judge so cruel: [03:09.50]That one doctor cannot save him, [03:15.57]That two eyes cannot see him, [03:22.20]And that three healers cannot heal him. [03:27.92]That four ears cannot hear him, [03:34.85]That five walls cannot hide him, [03:41.94]That six diggers cannot bury him, [03:48.16]And that seven deaths shall never kill him.