Key: C major•
Verse 1
F
C
Dm
Where the smoke is hanging still
G
C
Like an echo of an age long forgotten
There's a story of a home
F
Dm
Crossed be neath those blackened stones
F
G
Gm
Dm
before the beams were rotten
Gm
G
C
Cecil Darby loved his wife
F
Em
And he labored all his life
Dm
G
To provide her with material possessions
F
Em
Dm
of the finest wooden stone
G
F
And the building soon became
G
Gm
G
his sole obsession
C
F
Oh, it took three hundred days
G
C
for the timbers to be raised
F
C
And the silhouette was seen
F
Em
Dm
as the eagles in the sky
G
F
G
It only took one night to bring it down
Gm
G
When Derby's castle tumbled
C
D
to the ground
Though they shared a common bed,
G
D
Em
there was precious little Sam
For his busy dreams were filled
Em
A
He'd never heard young
A
D
Then one night he heard a sound,
G
Em
an d he laid his pencil down
Through the pay light in the room,
G
Em
through the windows on the room
A
G
Oh, it took three hundred days
A
D
for the tempest to be raised
G
D
And the silhouette was seen
G
D
as the eagles in the sky
Em
A
G
A
It only took one night to bring it down
Outro 1
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground
D
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