Darby's Castle

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See the ruin on the hill
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where the smoke is hangin still
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like an echo of an age long 
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forgotten

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there's a story of a home
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crushed beneath those blackened 
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stones
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and the roof that fell before the 
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beams were rotten

      G               Em
Cecil Darby loved his wife
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and he labored all his life
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to provide her with material 
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possessions

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and he built for her a home
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of the finest wood and stone
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and the building soon became his 
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sole obsession

 CHORUS
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 oh it took 300 days
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 for the timbers to be raised
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 and the silhouette was seen from 
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miles around
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 and the gables reached as high
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 as the eagles in the sky
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 but it only took one night to bring
 it down
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 when Darby's castle tumbled to 
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the ground


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Though they shared a common bed
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there was precious little said
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in the moments that were set aside 
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for sleepin'
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for his busy dreams were filled
           C        Em     Am
with the rooms he'd yet to build
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and he never heard young Helen 
   D
Darby weepin'

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then one night he heard a sound
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as he layed his pencil down and he
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traced it to her door and turned 
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the handle
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and the pale light of the moon
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through the window of the room
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split the shadows where two bodies
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 lay entangled


CHORUS:
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 Oh it took 300 days
            G             Em
 for the timbers to be raised
                C         G       
 and the silhouette was seen from 
        D
miles around
          G                 Em
 and the gables reached as high
           C   -  Em  -  Am
 as the eagles in the sky
         D            D7
 but it only took one night to bring
 it down
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 when Darby's castle tumbled to 
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the ground