The song Seven Curses is performed by Bob Dylan in the album named The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991 in the year 1997 .
Old Reilly stole a stallion
But they caught him and they brought him back
And they laid him down in the jail house ground
With an iron chain around his neck
Old Reilly's daughter got a message
That her father was goin' to hang
She rode by night and came by 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 don't take the chance to try
And pay the price and not take your advice
For that reason I will have to stay"
The gallows shadows shook the evening
In the night a hound dog bayed
In the night the grounds were groanin'
In the night the price was paid
The next mornin' she had awoken
To know that the judge had never spoken
She saw that hangin' branch a-bendin'
She saw her fathers body broken
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
That one doctor can't not save him
That two healers cannot heal him
That three eyes cannot see him
That four ears cannot hear him,
That five walls cannot hide him,
That six diggers cannot bury him
And that seven deaths shall never kill him
Bob Dylan - The Bootleg Series, Vols. 1-3 : Rare And Unreleased, 1961-1991
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- He Was A Friend Of Mine
- Man On The Street
- No More Auction Block
- House Carpenter
- Talkin' Bear Mountain Picnic Massacre Blues
- Let Me Die In My Footsteps
- Rambling, Gambling Willie
- Talkin' Hava Negeilah Blues
- Quit Your Low Down Ways
- Worried Blues
- Kingsport Town
- Walkin' Down The Line
- Walls Of Red Wing
- Paths Of Victory
- Talkin' John Birch Paranoid Blues
- Who Killed Davey Moore?
- Only A Hobo
- Moonshiner
- When The Ship Comes In
- The Times They Are A-Changin'
- Last Thoughts On Woody Guthrie
- Seven Curses
- Eternal Circle
- Suze (The Cough Song)
- Mama, You Been On My Mind
- Farewell, Angelina
- Subterranean Homesick Blues
- If You Gotta Go, Go Now (Or Else You Gotta Stay All Night)
- Sitting On A Barbed Wire Fence
- Like A Rolling Stone
- It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry
- I'll Keep It With Mine
- She's Your Lover Now
- I Shall Be Released
- Santa-Fe
- If Not For You
- Wallflower
- Nobody 'Cept You
- Tangled Up In Blue
- Call Letter Blues
- Idiot Wind
- If You See Her, Say Hello
- Golden Loom
- Catfish
- Seven Days
- Ye Shall Be Changed
- Every Grain Of Sand
- You Changed My Life
- Need A Woman
- Angelina
- Someone's Got A Hold Of My Heart
- Tell Me
- Lord Protect My Child
- Foot Of Pride
- Blind Willie McTell
- When The Night Comes Falling From The Sky
- Series Of Dreams