Seven Curses chords

D   

 
    D      G     G/F# D
Old Reilly stole a    stallion
         D                   G       G/F# D
But they caught him and they brought him  back
         G    G/F# Em7         D
And they laid him  down in the jailhouse ground
        A/E                   D
With an iron chain around his neck

     D        G        G/F#  D
When Reilly’s daughter got a message
         D      G   G/F#  D
That her father was gonna hang
    G    G/F# Em7       G/F#    D
She rode by   night and came by morning
     A/E                    D
With gold and silver in her hand

         D         G   G/F# D
When the judge saw Reilly‘s daughter
    D        G        G/F#   D
His old eyes deepened in his head
        G    G/F# Em7   G/F#      D
Saying, gold will never free your father
    A/E                      D
The price, my dear, is you instead

    D              G     G/F#  D
Oh, I’m as good as dead, cried Reilly
     D    G        G/F#    D
It’s only you that he does crave
       G         G/F#   Em7         D
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
    A/E                     D
Get on your horse and ride away

    D      G        G/F#   D
Oh, father you will surely die
   D       G        G/F#      D
If I don‘t take the chance to try
    G   G/F# Em7       D
And pay the  price and not take your advice
    A/E                        D
For that reason I will have to stay

    D       G       G/F#       D
The gallows shadows shook the evening
D              G     G/F# D
In the night a hound dog  bayed
G      G/F#      Em7         D
In the night the grounds was groaning
A/E                        D
In the night the price was paid

         D       G   G/F# D
The next morning she had awoken
   D             G         G/F#  D
To find that the judge had never spoken
    G   G/F# Em7     G/F#     D
She saw that hanging branch a-bending
    A/E                   D
She saw her father’s body broken

D              G      G/F# D
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
     D   G      G/F#   D
That one doctor cannot save him
     G G/F# Em7     G/F#   D
That two    healers cannot heal him
        A/E               D
And the three eyes cannot see him

     D    G    G/F#     D
That four ears will not hear him
     D    G     G/F#   D
That five walls cannot hide him
     G G/F# Em7     G/F#   D
That six    diggers cannot bury him
         A/E                      D
And that seven deaths shall never kill him