Darby's Castle chords by Frankie McBride

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Verse 1
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 (D major) See the ruin on the hill
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where  (G major) the smoke is hanging still
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 (E minor) Like  (A major) an echo of an age
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long forgot (D major) ten
There's a story of a home crushed be
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 (G major) neath those blackene (E minor) d stones
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And  (A major) the roof that fell
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 (G major) be fore the beams  (A major) were rotten
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Cecil  (D major) Darby loved his wife
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And he  (G major) labored all his  (E minor) life
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To provide  (A major) her with material
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possession (D major) s
And he built for her a home
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Of  (G major) the finest wood and  (E minor) stone
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And the  (A major) building soon be
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 (G major) came his sole  (A major) obsession.
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An (D major) d  (G major) it took three hundred  (A major) days
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for the  (D major) timbers to be raised,
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And the  (G major) silhouette was seen
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 (D major) for miles  (A major) around.
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And  (D major) the gables reached as high
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Em 
as  (G major) eagles in the  (E minor) sky,
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But  (A major) it only took one  (G major) night
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to bring it  (A major) down,
When Darby's castle tumbled
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to  (D major) the ground.  (E major) 
Though they shared a common bed,
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there was  (A major) precious little  (F sharp minor) said,
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In  (B major) the moments that were
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set aside for  (E major) sleeping.
All his busy dreams were filled
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With the  (A major) rooms he'd yet to  (F sharp minor) build
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And  (B major) he never heard young
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 (A major) Ellen Darby  (B major) weepin'
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Then one  (E major) night he heard a sound
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As  (A major) he laid his pencil  (F sharp minor) down
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And  (B major) he traced it to her door
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And the  (E major) pale light of the  (E minor) moon
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Through  (E major)  (A major) the window of  (F sharp minor) the room
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Split  (B major) the shadows
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where  (A major) two bodies lay  (B major) entangled
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And it  (A major) took three hundred  (B major) days
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For the  (E major) timbers to be raised
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And  (A major) the silhouette was  (E major) seen
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for miles  (B major) around
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And  (E major) the cables reached as high
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F#m 
as  (A major) eagles in the  (F sharp minor) sky
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But  (B major) it only took one  (A major) night
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to bring  (B major) it down
When Darby's castle
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tumbled to  (E major) the ground
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