Bob Dylan - Seven Curses Lyrics
Old reilly stole a stallionBut they caught him and they brought him backAnd they laid him down on the jailhouse groundWith an iron chain around his neck.Old reillys daughter got a messageThat her father was goin to hang.She rode by night and came by morningWith gold and silver in her hand.When the judge he saw reillys daughterHis old eyes deepened in his head,Sayin, gold will never free your father,The price, my dear, is you instead.Oh Im as good as dead, cried reilly,Its only you that he does craveAnd my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all.Get on your horse and ride away.Oh father you will surely dieIf I dont take the chance to tryAnd pay the price and not take your advice.For that reason I will have to stay.The gallows shadows shook the evening,In the night a hound dog bayed,In the night the grounds were groanin,In the night the price was paid.The next mornin she had awokenTo know that the judge had never spoken.She saw that hangin branch a-bendin,She saw her fathers body broken.These be seven curses on a judge so cruel:That one doctor will not save him,That two healers will not heal him,That three eyes will not see him.That four ears will not hear him,That five walls will not hide him,That six diggers will not bury himAnd that seven deaths shall never kill him.
