Key: D minor
Intro 1
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Em
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Verse 1
Verse 2
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Old Reilly stole a stallion
But they caught him and
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they brought him back
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And they laid him down on
the jailhouse ground
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With an iron chain around his neck.
Verse 3
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G
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That her father was goin' to hang.
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She rode by night and came by morning
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With gold and silver in her hand.
Verse 4
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When the judge he saw
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Reilly's daughter
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His old eyes deepened in his head,
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The price, my dear, is you instead."
Verse 5
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"It's only you that he does crave
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And my skin will surely crawl if
Verse 6
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"Oh father you will surely die
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to try
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And pay the price and not take your advice.
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For that reason I will have to stay."
Interlude 1
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C
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F
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Em
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Verse 7
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The gallows shadows shook the evening,
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In the night a hound dog bayed,
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s were groanin',
Verse 8
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The next mornin' she had awoken
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She saw her father's body broken.
Verse 9
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That one doctor will not save him,
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That two healers will not heal him,
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That three eyes will not see him.
Verse 10
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That four ears will not hear him,
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That five walls will not hide him,
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That six diggers will not bury him
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And that seven deaths shall nev er kill him.
Outro 1
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Esus4
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