Seven Curses

Lyrics

Old Reilly stole a stallion They caught him and they brought him back And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground With an iron chain around his neck When Reilly's daughter got a message That her father was a-going to hang She rode by night and came the 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" "Oh Father, you will surely die If I do not take the chance to try And pay the price and not take your advice For this reason, I will have to stay" The gallows shadows shook the evening And in the night, a hound dog bayed In the night, the grounds was groanin' In the night, the price was paid Next morning, she had awoken To find that the judge had never spoken She saw the hanging branch a-bendin' She saw her father's body broken Seven curses on a judge so cruel That one doctor cannot save him Two healers cannot heal him Three eyes cannot see him Four ears cannot hear him Five walls cannot hide him Six beggars cannot buy him Seven deaths shall never kill him