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