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  13 <h1 class="songtitle">Seven Curses</h1>
  14
  15
  16 <p>Written by Bob Dylan<br />
  17 Released on <a class="recordlink" href="index.htm">The Bootleg Series 1-3</a> (1991) in a version from
  18 Carnegie Hall, NYC, Oct 26, 1963<br />
  19 Tabbed by Eyolf &Oslash;strem</p>
  20
  21 <p>Dropped D tuning (D-A-d-g-b-e') <br />
  22 Capo 2nd fret (sounding key E major)</p>
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  24 <hr />
  25
  26 <p>The following figure recurs at the end of virtually every phrase, in
  27 this form, or shortened or prolonged:</p>
  28
  29 <p>D-riff:</p>
  30 <pre class="tab">
  31   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  32 |---------------0-|h2-----3p2-----0-|h2------------(2)|-----------------|
  33 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  34 |-----------------|---2-------2-----|----------(2)----|-----------------|
  35 |-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|
  36 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  37 |-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
  38 </pre>
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  42 <pre class="tab">
  43     D                 /g      /f#       D
  44     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :        :        :        :
  45   |-----------------|-----------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  46   |-----------------|-----------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  47   |-----------------|-----------------|--- D-riff  -----|--------|--------|
  48   |-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  49   |-----------------|-----------------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  50   |-0-------0-------|-5-------4-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|
  51 Old Reilley           stole   a         stallion                      but they
  52 </pre>
  53 <pre class="tab">
  54   D                 /g      /f#       D
  55   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :  .  .  .
  56 |-----------------|-----------------|---------------0-|h2-------------2-|-------------|
  57 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------|
  58 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------2-----|-------------|
  59 |-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|----0-----0--|
  60 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-------------|
  61 |-0-------0-------|-5-------4-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|-0-----0-----|
  62 caught him and they brought him       back                                      and they
  63 </pre>
  64 <pre class="tab">
  65   G       /f#       Em7     D/f#      D
  66   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
  67 |-----------------|-----------------|---------------0-|h2---------------|
  68 |-----------------|-----------------|-----3-----------|-----------------|
  69 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------2-----|-----------------|
  70 |-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|
  71 |-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|-----------------|
  72 |-5-------4-------|-2-------4-------|-0-------0-------|-0-------0-------|
  73   laid    him down          on  the   jail -  house     ground  with an
  74 </pre>
  75 <pre class="tab">
  76   A/e                                 D
  77   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .     :   .     :   .     :   .     :   .
  78 |-----------------|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|--------|
  79 |-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|---------|---------|---------|--------|
  80 |-----------------|-----------------|---   d-riff   ----|---------|--------|
  81 |-----2-------2---|-----2-------2---|---------|---------|---------|--------|
  82 |-----------------|-----------------|---------|---------|---------|--------|
  83 |-2-------2-------|-2-------2-------|---------|---------|---------|--------|
  84   iron       chain around   his       neck
  85 </pre>
  86
  87 <pre class="verse">
  88 Old Reilly's daughter got a message
  89 That her father was goin' to hang.
  90 She rode by night and came by morning
  91 With gold and silver in her hand
  92
  93 When the judge he saw Reilly's daughter
  94 His old eyes deepened in his head,
  95 Sayin', &quot;Gold will never free your father,
  96 The price, my dear, is you instead.&quot;
  97
  98 &quot;Oh I'm as good as dead,&quot; cried Reilly,
  99 &quot;It's only you that he does crave
 100 And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all.
 101 Get on your horse and ride away.&quot;
 102
 103 &quot;Oh father you will surely die
 104 If I don't take the chance to try
 105 And pay the price and not take your advice.
 106 For that reason I will have to stay.&quot;
 107
 108 The gallows shadows shook the evening,
 109 In the night a hound dog bayed,
 110 In the night the grounds were groanin',
 111 In the night the price was paid.
 112
 113 The next mornin' she had awoken
 114 To know that the judge had never spoken.
 115 She saw that hangin' branch a-bendin',
 116 She saw her father's body broken.
 117 </pre>
 118
 119 <pre class="tab">
 120   :   .   .   .     :   .   .   .
 121 |-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------
 122 |-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------
 123 |-----------------|-----------------|----  d-riff    ---------
 124 |-----0-------0---|-----0-------0---|-------------------------
 125 |-----------------|-----------------|-------------------------
 126 |-0-------5-------|-4-------2-------|-0-----------------------
 127  These be se-ven   cur-ses on   a     judge so cruel:        that
 128  one                doctor  will not  save him
 129 </pre>
 130
 131 <pre class="verse">
 132 That two healers will not heal him,
 133 That three eyes will not see him.
 134
 135 That four ears will not hear him,
 136 That five walls will not hide him,
 137 That six diggers will not bury him
 138 And that seven deaths shall never kill him.
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