Seven Curses Lyrics - Joan Baez 75th Birthday Celebration - Joan Baez

Old Reilly stole a stallion 

They caught him and they brought him back 

And they laid him down on the jail house ground 

With an iron chain around his neck 

When 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 

Then when the judge saw Reilly's daughter 

His old eyes deepened in his head 

He said, "Gold will never free your father 

Know the price, my dear, is you instead" 

"Well, 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 

So get on your horse and ride away" 

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"Oh father you will surely die 

If I do not take a chance to try 

And pay the price and not take your advice 

For this reason I'll have to stay" 

Well, the gallows shadows shook the evening 

And in the night a hound dog bayed 

In the night the grounds was groanin' 

And in the night, the price was paid 

The next mornin' she had awoken 

To find that the judge had never spoken 

She saw the hangin' branch a-bendin' 

And she saw her father's body broken 

Seven curses on a judge so cruel 

One doctor cannot cure him 

Two healers cannot heal him 

And three eyes cannot see him 

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Four ears cannot hear him 

Five walls cannot hide him 

Six beggars cannot steal him 

And seven deaths will never free him