Seven Curses Lyrics - Bob Dylan

Old Reilly stole a stallion 

But they caught him and they brought him back 

And they laid him down in the jail house ground 

With an iron chain around his neck 

Old Reilly's daughter got a message 

That her father was goin' to hang 

She rode by night and came by morning 

With gold and silver in her hand 

When the judge saw Reilly's daughter 

His old eyes deepened in his head 

Sayin', "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" 

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"Oh father you will surely die 

If I don't take the chance to try 

And 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 awoken 

To 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 can't not save him 

That two healers cannot heal him 

That three eyes cannot see him 

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That four ears cannot hear him, 

That five walls cannot hide him, 

That six diggers cannot bury him 

And that seven deaths shall never kill him