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Seven Curses chords by
Tom Russell
Tom Russell

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Intro 1
Am
Em
C
Am

Verse 1
Am

(Bob Dylan)
Verse 2
G
Am

Old Reilly stole a stallion

But they caught him and
G
Am

they brought him back
C
G

And they laid him down on

the jailhouse ground
F
Am

With an iron chain around his neck.
Verse 3
Am

G

Old Reilly's daughter got a message
Am
G
Am

That her father was goin' to hang.
C
G

She rode by night and came by morning
F
Am

With gold and silver in her hand.
Verse 4
Am


When the judge he saw
G
Am

Reilly's daughter
G
Am

His old eyes deepened in his head,
C

Sayin', "Gold will never
G

free your father,
F
Am

The price, my dear, is you instead."
Verse 5
Am

G

"Oh I'm as good as dead,"
Am

cried Reilly,
G
Am

"It's only you that he does crave
C
G

And my skin will surely crawl if
F

he touches you at all.
Am

Get on your horse and ride away."
Verse 6
Am

G
Am

"Oh father you will surely die
G

If I don't take the chance
Am
Em
Am

to try
C
G

And pay the price and not take your advice.
F
Am

For that reason I will have to stay."
Interlude 1
G

Am
G
Am
C

G
F
Am
Em
Am


Verse 7
G
Am

The gallows shadows shook the evening,
G
Am

In the night a hound dog bayed,
C

In the night the ground
G
F

s were groanin',
Am

In the night the price was paid.
Verse 8
Am

G
Am

The next mornin' she had awoken
G

To know that the judge
Am

had never spoken.
C

She saw that hangin'
G

branch a- bendin',
F
Am

She saw her father's body broken.
Verse 9
Am

G

These be seven curses on
Am

a judge so cruel:
G
Am

That one doctor will not save him,
C
G

That two healers will not heal him,
F
Am

That three eyes will not see him.
Verse 10
Am
G
Am

That four ears will not hear him,
G
Am

That five walls will not hide him,
C
G

That six diggers will not bury him
F
Am

And that seven deaths shall nev er kill him.
Outro 1
Am
G
Am
G
Am

Esus4
Am
Em
C
G
F
G

Am
G
Am
G

Am
C
G
F
G

Am


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  • F

  • Esus4

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