Seven Curses Ukulele Chords

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                      Seven Curses – Bob Dylan
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Written by: Bob Dylan
Recorded June 8, 1963, CBS Studios, New York
Released on: “The Bootleg Series Vol. 01-03:
              Rare and Unreleased 1961-1991” (1991)
 
Tabbed by: maguri
Tuning: soprano C
 
Transcribed in friendly D. To match Dylan’s recording use a capo 1st fret
or transpose +1 (and “use flats”). There are other versions around with
different capo positions (2nd or 3rd fret).
 
CHORDS
       g-C-E-A
D      2-2-2-0
Gsus4  0-2-3-3
G      0-2-3-2
Gmaj7  0-2-2-2
Em7    0-2-0-2
A      2-4-0-0
 
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[Intro]
| D | % |
 
 [Verse 1]
    D      Gsus4 G D
Old Reilly stole a stallion
         D                   Gsus4   G   D
But they caught him and they brought him back
         G    Gmaj7 Em7         D
And they laid him   down in the jailhouse ground
        A                     D
With an iron chain around his neck
 
[Verse 2]
     D        Gsus4    G     D
When Reilly’s daughter got a message
         D      Gsus4 G     D
That her father was   gonna hang
    G    Gmaj7 Em7       Gmaj7   D
She rode by    night and came by morning
     A                      D
With gold and silver in her hand
 
[Verse 3]
         D         Gsus4 G    D
When the judge saw Reil- ly’s daughter
    D        Gsus4    G      D
His old eyes deepened in his head
        G    Gmaj7 Em7   Gmaj7     D
Saying, gold will  never free your father
    A                        D
The price, my dear, is you instead
 
[Verse 4]
    D              Gsus4 G     D
Oh, I’m as good as dead, cried Reilly
     D    Gsus4    G       D
It’s only you that he does crave
       G         Gmaj7  Em7         D
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
    A                       D
Get on your horse and ride away
 
[Verse 5]
    D      Gsus4    G      D
Oh, father you will surely die
   D       Gsus4    G         D
If I don‘t take the chance to try
    G   Gmaj7 Em7       D
And pay the   price and not take your advice
    A                          D
For that reason I will have to stay
 
[Verse 6]
    D       Gsus4   G         D
The gallows shadows shook the evening
D              Gsus4 G   D
In the night a hound dog bayed
G      Gmaj7     Em7         D
In the night the grounds was groaning
A                          D
In the night the price was paid
 
[Verse 7]
         D       Gsus4 G    D
The next morning she   had awoken
   D             Gsus4      G    D
To find that the judge had never spoken
    G   Gmaj7 Em7     Gmaj7    D
She saw that  hanging branch a-bending
    A                     D
She saw her father’s body broken
 
[Verse 8]
D              Gsus4  G    D
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
     D   Gsus4  G      D
That one doctor cannot save him
     G Gmaj7 Em7     Gmaj7  D
That two     healers cannot heal him
        A                 D
And the three eyes cannot see him
 
[Verse 9]
     D    Gsus4 G        D
That four ears  will not hear him
     D    Gsus4 G      D
That five walls cannot hide him
     G Gmaj7 Em7     Gmaj7  D
That six     diggers cannot bury him
         A                        D
And that seven deaths shall never kill him
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