Key: E major
Verse 1
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See the ruins on the hill where
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the smoke is hanging still
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Like an echo of an age
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long forgotten
There's a story of a home crushed be
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neath those blackened stones
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And the roof that fell before
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the beams were rotten
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Cecil Darby loved his wife and
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he labored all his life
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To provide her with material possessions
Verse 2
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And he built for her a home of
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the finest wood and stone
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And the building soon be
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came his sole obsession
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Oh it took three hundred days
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for the timbers to be raised
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And the silhouette was seen
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for 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
When Darby's castle tumbled
to the ground
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Verse 3
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Though they shared the common
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bed there was precious little said
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In the moments that were
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set aside for sleeping
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For his busy dreams were filled with
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the rooms he'd yet to build
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And he never heard young
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Helen Darby weeping
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Then one night he heard the sound an
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d as he laid his pencil down
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He traced it to her door and turned
the handle
And the pale light of the moon through
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the window of her room
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Split the shadows where
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two bodies lay in tangle
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Oh it took three hundred days
Outro 1
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