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Seven Curses
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Joan Baez
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Old Reilly stole a stallion
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They caught him and they brought him back
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And they laid him down on the jail house ground
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With an iron chain around his neck
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When Reilly's daughter got a message
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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
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Then when the judge saw Reilly's daughter
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His old eyes deepened in his head
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He said, "Gold will never free your father
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Know the price, my dear, is you instead"
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"Well, I'm as good as dead," cried Reilly
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"It's only you that he does crave
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And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
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So get on your horse and ride away"
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"Oh father you will surely die
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If I do not take a chance to try
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And pay the price and not take your advice
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For this reason I'll have to stay"
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Well, the gallows shadows shook the evening
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And in the night a hound dog bayed
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In the night the grounds was groanin'
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And in the night, the price was paid
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The next mornin' she had awoken
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To find that the judge had never spoken
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She saw the hangin' branch a-bendin'
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And she saw her father's body broken
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Seven curses on a judge so cruel
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One doctor cannot cure him
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Two healers cannot heal him
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And three eyes cannot see him
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Four ears cannot hear him
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Five walls cannot hide him
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Six beggars cannot steal him
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And seven deaths will never free him
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