Seven Curses

Tuning: DADGBe 
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Rei lly stole a stallion And they 
 
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caught and brought him back And they 
him they 
 
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laid him down in the jail house ground With an 
 
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iron chain a round neck 
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When 
 
When Reilly‘s daughter got a message 
That her father was going to hang 
She rode by night and came by morning 
With gold and silver in her hand 
 
Whe the judge 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" 
 
"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" 
 
"Oh, father you will surely die 
If I don‘t take a chance to try 
And pay the price and not take your advice 
For that reason I will have to stay" 
 
The gallow‘s shadown took the evening 
In the night the hound dog bayed 
In the night the ground was groaning 
In the night the price was paid 
 
The next morning whe had awoken 
To find that the judge had never spoken 
She saw the branch a-bending 
She saw her father‘s body broken 
 
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel 
That one doctor cannot save him 
At two, healers can‘t heal him 
And at three eyes cannot see him 
 
At four, ears cannot hear him 
At five, walls cannot hide him 
At six, beggars cannot buy him 
And at seven, death shall never kill him