Seven Curses-Joan Baez

[ti:Seven Curses] [ar:Joan Baez] [al:Bowery Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Seven Curses (七道诅咒) - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹) [00:29.74]Old Reilly stole a stallion [00:34.97]They caught him and they brought him back [00:40.95]And they laid him down on the jail house ground [00:46.51]With an iron chain around his neck [00:54.49]When Reilly's daughter got a message [01:00.42]That her father was going to hang [01:05.78]She rode by night and came by morning [01:11.59]With gold and silver in her hand [01:33.18]Then when the judge saw Reilly's daughter [01:38.98]His old eyes deepened in his head [01:44.22]He said "Gold will never free your father [01:49.80]Know the price my dear is you instead" [01:58.16]"Well I'm as good as dead " cried Reilly [02:03.90]"It's only you that he does crave [02:09.14]And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all [02:14.69]So get on your horse and ride away" [02:22.92]"Oh father you will surely die [02:28.23]If I do not take a chance to try [02:34.15]And pay the price and not take your advice [02:39.52]For this reason I'll have to stay" [02:57.24]Well the gallows shadows shook the evening [03:03.08]And in the night a hound dog bayed [03:08.68]In the night the grounds was groaning [03:13.74]And in the night the price was paid [03:22.16] [03:47.26]The next morning she had awoken [03:53.12]To find that the judge had never spoken [03:58.83]She saw the hanging branch a-bending [04:04.07]And she saw her father's body broken [04:12.12]Seven curses on a judge so cruel [04:18.80]One doctor cannot cure him [04:24.23]Two healers cannot heal him [04:28.84]And three eyes cannot see him [04:34.84]Four ears cannot hear him [04:39.86]Five walls cannot save him [04:46.11]Six beggars cannot steal him [04:50.41]And seven deaths will never free him