O'er Riley stole a stallion,
they caught him and they brought him back
And they laid him down
on the jailhouse ground
with an iron chain around his neck
When
Riley's daughter got a message
that her father was going to hang
She rode by at night and came the morning
with gold and silver
in her hand
When the judge saw Riley's daughter,
his old eyes deepened in his head
Saying gold will never free your father,
or the price of my dear's healing stain
Oh,
I'm as good as dead, cried Riley
It's only you that he does crave
And my skin will surely crawl if he touches you at all
Get on your horse and ride away
Oh, father, you will surely
die
if I do not take the chance to try
Pay the price and not take your advice For this reason
I'll have to stay
The gallows shadows shook the evening
And in the night a hound
dog bade
In the night the grounds was a-groanin'
In the
night the price was payin'
This morning she had a-walkin'
To find that the judge had never spoken
She saw the hangin' branch a-bendin'
She saw her father's body broken
One curse is on a judge so cruel
That one doctor cannot save him
Two healers cannot heal him
Three eyes cannot see him
Four ears cannot hear him
Five walls cannot hide him
Six beggars cannot buy him
Seven deaths shall never kill him