Intro
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[Verse 1]
E A E E E
Old Reilly stole a stallion
E A E E
But they caught him and they brought him back
A F# E
And they laid him down on the Jailhouse ground
B E E
With an iron chain around his neck
[Instrumental]
E E
[Verse 2]
E E E
Old Reilly’s daughter got a message
E E E
That her father was gonna hang
A E E E
She rode by night and came by morning
B E E E
With gold and silver in her hand
[Verse 3]
E E E
When the judge he saw Reilly‘s daughter
E E E
His old eyes deepened in his head
E A E E E
Saying, gold will never free your father
E B E E E
The price, my dear, is you instead
[Verse 4]
E E E
Oh I’m as good as dead, cried Reilly
E E E
It’s only you that he does crave
E A F# E
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
F#7 E E E
Get on your horse and ride away
[Verse 5]
E E E
Oh father you will surely die
E E E
If I don‘t take the chance to try
A F# E E
To pay the price and not take your advice
F# E E E
For that reason I will have to stay
[Instrumental]
E E
[Verse 6]
E E E
The gallows shadows shook the evening
E E E
In the night a hound dog bayed
A E E E
In the dark the grounds were groaning
F# E E
In the dark the price was paid
[Instrumental]
E E
[Verse 7]
E E E
The next morning she had awoken
E E E
She found that the judge had never spoken
A E E E
She saw that hanging branch a-bending
F# B E E
She saw her father’s body broken
[Verse 8]
E E E
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
E E E
That one doctor will not save him
A E E
That two eyes cannot see him
B E E
And the three healers cannot heal him
[Verse 9 / Outro]
E E E
That four ears will not hear him
E E E
That five walls cannot hide him
E A E E E
That six diggers cannot bury him
E F# E E
And that seven deaths shall never kill him
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