Seven Curses Cifras

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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: Drop D + capo 1st
 
Capo: 1st fret
Play: D
Key: Eb
 
There are other versions with capo 2nd or 3rd fret.
 
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[Verse]
Many minor changes here and there, but this is the basic pattern to work from.
 
                                   (These extra beats aren’t always played)
  D       G  G/F#  D
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + (1 + 2 + )
e|----------------|-------2-------2|--------|
B|----------------|----------------|--------|
G|-----2----------|-----2-------2--|--------|
D|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0-|
A|----------------|----------------|--------|
D|0---0---5---4---|0---0---0---0---|0---0---|
  D       G  G/F#  D
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + (1 + 2 + )
e|----------------|-------2-------2|--------|
B|----------------|----------------|--------|
G|-----2----------|-----2-------2--|--------|
D|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0-|
A|----------------|----------------|--------|
D|0---0---5---4---|0---0---0---0---|0---0---|
  G  G/F# Em7(G/F#)D                A/E                  (The second G/F# is only sometimes played,
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +       other than that the Em7 is kept)
e|----------------|-------2--------|----------------|
B|----------------|----------------|----------------|
G|-------------0--|-----2-------2--|-----2-------2--|
D|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--2---2---2---2-|
A|----------------|----------------|----------------|
D|5---4---2---4---|0---0---0---0---|2---2---2---2---|
  D
  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 + 3 + 4 +  1 + 2 +
e|----h2—2h3p2p0-2|----------------|--------|
B|----------------|----------------|--------|
G|---2------------|-----2-------2--|--------|
D|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0---0---0-|--0---0-|
A|----------------|----------------|--------|
D|0---0---0---0---|0---0---0---0---|0---0---|
 
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[Intro]
| D | % |
 
 [Verse 1]
    D      G     G/F# D
Old Reilly stole a    stallion
         D                   G       G/F# D
But they caught him and they brought him  back
         G    G/F# Em7         D
And they laid him  down in the jailhouse ground
        A/E                   D
With an iron chain around his neck
 
[Verse 2]
     D        G        G/F#  D
When Reilly’s daughter got a message
         D      G   G/F#  D
That her father was gonna hang
    G    G/F# Em7       G/F#    D
She rode by   night and came by morning
     A/E                    D
With gold and silver in her hand
 
[Verse 3]
         D         G   G/F# D
When the judge saw Reilly‘s daughter
    D        G        G/F#   D
His old eyes deepened in his head
        G    G/F# Em7   G/F#      D
Saying, gold will never free your father
    A/E                      D
The price, my dear, is you instead
 
[Verse 4]
    D              G     G/F#  D
Oh, I’m as good as dead, cried Reilly
     D    G        G/F#    D
It’s only you that he does crave
       G         G/F#   Em7         D
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
    A/E                     D
Get on your horse and ride away
 
[Verse 5]
    D      G        G/F#   D
Oh, father you will surely die
   D       G        G/F#      D
If I don‘t take the chance to try
    G   G/F# Em7       D
And pay the  price and not take your advice
    A/E                        D
For that reason I will have to stay
 
[Verse 6]
    D       G       G/F#       D
The gallows shadows shook the evening
D              G     G/F# D
In the night a hound dog  bayed
G      G/F#      Em7         D
In the night the grounds was groaning
A/E                        D
In the night the price was paid
 
[Verse 7]
         D       G   G/F# D
The next morning she had awoken
   D             G         G/F#  D
To find that the judge had never spoken
    G   G/F# Em7     G/F#     D
She saw that hanging branch a-bending
    A/E                   D
She saw her father’s body broken
 
[Verse 8]
D              G      G/F# D
These be seven curses on a judge so cruel
     D   G      G/F#   D
That one doctor cannot save him
     G G/F# Em7     G/F#   D
That two    healers cannot heal him
        A/E               D
And the three eyes cannot see him
 
[Verse 9]
     D    G    G/F#     D
That four ears will not hear him
     D    G     G/F#   D
That five walls cannot hide him
     G G/F# Em7     G/F#   D
That six    diggers cannot bury him
         A/E                      D
And that seven deaths shall never kill him
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