Seven Curses chords by Bob Dylan

Intro:
F F Bb F
F F


Verse 1:
F     Bb  F     F F
Old Reilly stole a stallion
F              Bb   F    F
But they caught him and they brought him back
Bb        G  F
And they laid him down on the Jailhouse ground
C               F  F
With an iron chain around his neck

Instrumental:
F F


Verse 2:
F                  F F
Old Reilly’s daughter got a message
F               F F
That her father was gonna hang
Bb     F             F F
She rode by night and came by morning
C              F  F F
With gold and silver in her hand


Verse 3:
F                    F F
When the judge he saw Reilly‘s daughter
F                 F F
His old eyes deepened in his head
F      Bb  F           F F
Saying, gold will never free your father
F  C           F    F F
The price, my dear, is you instead


Verse 4:
F                  F F
Oh I’m as good as dead, cried Reilly
F                F F
It’s only you that he does crave
F        Bb   G      F
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
G7          F     F F
Get on your horse and ride away


Verse 5:
F               F F
Oh father you will surely die
F                 F F
If I don‘t take the chance to try
  Bb   G   F            F
To pay the price and not take your advice
G           F      F F
For that reason I will have to stay


Instrumental:
F F


Verse 6:
F                   F F
The gallows shadows shook the evening
F               F F
In the night a hound dog bayed
Bb       F           F F
In the dark the grounds were groaning
G             F  F
In the dark the price was paid


Instrumental:
F F


Verse 7:
F                F F
The next morning she had awoken
F                     F F
She found that the judge had never spoken
Bb          F        F F
She saw that hanging?? branch abandoned
G    C         F   F
She saw her fatherâ??s body broken


Verse 8:
F                     F F
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
F                 F F
That one doctor will not save him
Bb      F       F
That two eyes cannot see him
C                   F F
And the three healers cannot heal him


Verse 9 / Outro:
F                F F
That four ears will not hear him
F                F F
That five walls cannot hide him
F  Bb     F        F F
That six diggers cannot bury him
F    G                 F F
And that seven deaths shall never kill him