Darby's Castle chords by Steve Hofmeyr

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Verse 1
C 
See the ruin on the hill
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C 
Dm 
Where the smoke is hanging still
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C 
Like an echo of an age long forgotten
There's a story of a home
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Dm 
Crossed be neath those blackened stones
Gm 
At the roof that fell
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G 
Gm 
Dm 
before the beams were rotten
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G 
C 
Cecil Darby loved his wife
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Em 
And he labored all his life
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G 
To provide her with material possessions
C 
And he built for her a hall
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Em 
Dm 
of the finest wooden stone
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F 
And the building soon became
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Gm 
G 
his sole obsession
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F 
Oh, it took three hundred days
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C 
for the timbers to be raised
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C 
And the silhouette was seen
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for miles around
C 
And the gables reached as high
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Em 
Dm 
as the eagles in  the sky
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F 
G 
It only took one night to bring it down
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G 
When Derby's castle tumbled
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D 
to the ground
Though they shared a common bed,
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D 
Em 
there was precious little Sam
A 
In the moments that was
D 
set aside for sleeping
For his busy dreams were filled
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with the rooms he'd yet to build
Em 
A 
He'd never heard young
G 
El Adabi weeping
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D 
Then one night he heard a sound,
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Em 
and he laid his pencil down
A 
He twisted to the door and
D 
turned the handle
Through the pay light in the room,
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Em 
through the windows on the room
A 
Split the shadows
G 
where two bodies lay entangled
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G 
Oh, it took three hundred days
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D 
for the tempest to be raised
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D 
And the silhouette was seen
A 
for miles around
D 
And the gables reached as high
G 
D 
as the eagles in the sky
Em 
A 
G 
A 
It only took one night to bring it down