Key: E major•
Verse 1
E
A
E
See the ruins on the hill where
A
F#m
the smoke is hanging still
There's a story of a home crushed be
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F#m
neath those blackened stones
B
A
And the roof that fell before
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F#m
he labored all his life
B
E
To provide her with material possessions
Verse 2
A
F#m
the finest wood and stone
A
B
came his sole obsession
A
B
Oh it took three hundred days
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E
And the silhouette was seen
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E
And the gables reached as high
A
F#m
as the eagles in the sky
B
A
B
But it only took one night to bring it down
When Darby's castle tumbled
to the ground
E
Verse 3
C
Bb
Gm
bed there was precious little said
Bb
F
For his busy dreams were filled with
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Gm
the rooms he'd yet to build
Bb
C
F
Helen Darby weeping
Gm
Bb
D
Then one night he heard the sound an
Gm
C
d as he laid his pencil down
the handle
And the pale light of the moon through
Bb
Dm
Gm
the window of her room
Bb
C
two bodies lay in tangle
Outro 1
C
F
Bb
F
C
F
Bb
Dm
Gm
C
Bb
C
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsE A F#m B C...
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