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