Key: D major
Verse 1
Em
A
Like an echo of an age
There's a story of a home crushed be
G
Em
neath those blackened stones
G
A
be fore the beams were rotten
G
Em
And he labored all his life
And he built for her a home
G
Em
Of the finest wood and stone
G
A
came his sole obsession.
D
G
A
An d it took three hundred days
D
A
for miles around.
G
Em
as eagles in the sky,
A
G
But it only took one night
When Darby's castle tumbled
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E
to the ground.
Though they shared a common bed,
A
F#m
there was precious little said,
All his busy dreams were filled
A
F#m
With the rooms he'd yet to build
A
B
Ellen Darby weepin'
A
F#m
As he laid his pencil down
E
Em
And the pale light of the moon
E
A
F#m
Through the window of the room
A
B
where two bodies lay entangled
A
B
And it took three hundred days
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E
And the silhouette was seen
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F#m
as eagles in the sky
B
A
But it only took one night
When Darby's castle
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