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