Chords for Solas, "The Seven Curses"

_ One, two, three, four.
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_ _ _ [A] When Riley stole a stallion, they caught him and they brought him back.
They laid him [D] down on the jailhouse ground with [G] an iron chain [A]
around his neck.
When _ _ _ Riley's daughter got a message that her father was going to hang,
[B] she rode by night and [A] came by morning with gold and silver in her hand. _
Oh, when the judge saw Riley's daughter, _ his old eyes deepened in his head,
saying [D] gold will never free a father.
_ [G] Arise, my dear, the [A] students have died.
Well, I'm as good as dead, cried Riley, and it's [B] only you [A] he does crave.
And my [A] school will surely come alive if he touches you at all.
Get on your horse and [Am] ride away. _
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Oh, father, you'll surely die _ if I don't take a chance and try
[D] and pay the price [A] and not take your advice for that reason I have to stay. _
The gallows shook the evening. _
Oh, in the night a hound dog made. _
[D] Oh, in the night the grounds were roaring.
[G] Oh, in the night the [A] price was paid. _
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_ [Am] _ _ _ The next morning [A] she'd awoken to [Am] find the judge had never [B] spoken.
She [F] saw the hanging branch _ abandoned that [Em] soared for [A] this bounty brought. _ _ _ _
_ Oh, _ _ _ _ _ _ these [B] be [A] seven curses on a judge [B] _ so [A] cruel [D] that one [A] doctor will not save him,
[D] two [A] healers will not heal him, [D] three [A] eyes will not see him,
four ears will not hear him, _
[D] five walls [A] will not hide him,
six [D] diggers will [A] not bury him, [D] and seven deaths will [A] never kill him. _
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