Darby's Castle chords by The Country Gentlemen

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Intro 1

Verse 1
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See the
ruin on the hill,
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where the smoke is hanging still,
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like an echo of an age long
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forgotten.
There's a story of a home crushed
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beneath those blackened stones
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and the roof that fell
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before the beams were rotten.
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Cecil Darby loved his wife
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and he labored all his life
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to provide her with material possession.
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And he built for her a home
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of the finest wood and stone
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and the building soon became
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his sole obsession.
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Oh, it took three hundred days
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for the timbers to be raised,
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and the silhouette was
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seen for miles around.
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And the gables reached as high
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as the eagles in the sky,
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but it only took one night
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to bring it down,
when Darby's castle tumbled to
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D 
the ground.
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Oh, they shared a common bed,
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there was precious little Sid
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In the moments that were set
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aside for sleepin'
For his busy dreams were filled
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with the rooms he'd yet to build
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D 
And he never heard young
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El len Darby weepin'.
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Then one night he heard a sound
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as he laid his pencil down
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And he traced it to her door
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and turned the handle.
In the pale light of the moon
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through the window of the room
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D 
Split the shadows
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where two bodies lay entangled.
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Oh, it took three hundred days
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for the timbers to be raised
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And so it was seen for miles around
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And the gables reached as high
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as the eagles in the sky
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But it only took one night to bring it down
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground
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When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground