Seven Curses

Old Reilly stole a stallion

They caught him and they brought him back

And they laid him down on the jailhouse ground

With an iron chain around his neck

When Reilly's daughter got a message

That her father was a-going to hang

She rode by night and came the morning

With gold and silver in her hand

When the judge saw Reilly's daughter

His old eyes deepened in his head

Sayin', "Gold will never free your father

The price, my dear, is you instead"

"Oh, I'm as good as dead," cried Reilly

"It's only you that he does crave

And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all

Get on your horse and ride away"

"Oh Father, you will surely die

If I do not take the chance to try

And pay the price and not take your advice

For this reason, I will have to stay"

The gallows shadows shook the evening

And in the night, a hound dog bayed

In the night, the grounds was groanin'

In the night, the price was paid

Next morning, she had awoken

To find that the judge had never spoken

She saw the hanging branch a-bendin'

She saw her father's body broken

Seven curses on a judge so cruel

That one doctor cannot save him

Two healers cannot heal him

Three eyes cannot see him

Four ears cannot hear him

Five walls cannot hide him

Six beggars cannot buy him

Seven deaths shall never kill him