GEm
See the ruin on the hill
CEmAm
where the smoke is hangin still
DG
like an echo of an age long forgotten
GEm
there's a story of a home
CEmAm
crushed beneath those blackened stones
DD7D
and the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
GEm
Cecil Darby loved his wife
CEmAm
and he labored all his life
DG
to provide her with material possessions
GEm
and he built for her a home
CEmAm
of the finest wood and stone
DD7D
and the building soon became his sole obsession
CHORUS
CD
oh it took 300 days
GEm
for the timbers to be raised
CGD
and the silhouette was seen from miles around
GEm
and the gables reached as high
C - Em - Am
as the eagles in the sky
DD7
but it only took one night to bring it down
DD7G
when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground
GCGCGEm
Though they shared a common bed
CEmAm
there was precious little said
DG
in the moments that were set aside for sleepin'
Em
for his busy dreams were filled
CEmAm
with the rooms he'd yet to build
DD7D
and he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'
GEm
then one night he heard a sound
CEmAm
as he layed his pencil down and he
DG
traced it to her door and turned the handle
Em
and the pale light of the moon
CEmAm
through the window of the room
DD7D
split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled
CHORUS:
CD
Oh it took 300 days
GEm
for the timbers to be raised
CGD
and the silhouette was seen from miles around
GEm
and the gables reached as high
C - Em - Am
as the eagles in the sky
DD7
but it only took one night to bring it down
DD7G
when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground