[ti:Seven Curses (Live at Town Hall, New York, NY - April 1963)] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:Live 1962-1966 - Rare Performances From The Copyright Collections] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Seven Curses (Live at Town Hall, New York, NY - April 1963) - Bob Dylan [00:10.73]Lyrics by:Bob Dylan [00:21.46]Composed by:Bob Dylan [00:32.20]Old Reilly stole a stallion [00:39.19]But they caught him and they brought him back [00:45.75]And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground [00:53.22]With an iron chain around his neck [01:04.90]Old Reilly's daughter got a message [01:12.54]That her father was goin' to hang [01:19.33]She rode by night and came by morning [01:25.27]With gold and silver in her hand [01:33.39]When the judge he saw Reilly's daughter [01:40.88]His old eyes deepened in his head [01:48.95]Sayin' Gold will never free your father [01:55.13]The price my dear is you instead [02:06.62]Oh I'm as good as dead cried Reilly [02:13.80]It's only you that he does crave [02:19.30]And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all [02:24.33]Get back on your horse and ride away [02:35.54]Oh father you will surely die [02:41.39]If I don't take the chance to try [02:46.07]And pay the price and not take your advice [02:50.59]For that reason I will have to stay [03:01.33]The gallows shadows shook the evening [03:06.33]In the night a hound dog bayed [03:12.32]In the night the grounds were groanin' [03:18.26]In the night the price was paid [03:28.10]And next mornin' she had awoken [03:34.74]To find that the judge had never spoken [03:41.56]She saw that hangin' branch a-bendin' [03:48.54]She saw her father's body broken [03:57.06]These be seven curses on a judge so cruel [04:06.18]That one doctor can not save him [04:13.60]That two healers can not heal him [04:19.14]That three eyes can not see him [04:26.24]That four ears can not hear him [04:39.31]That five walls can not hide him [04:47.00]That six diggers can not bury him [04:53.99]And that seven deaths shall never kill him