WWW.AZCHORDS.COM | Bobby Bare - Darbys Castle Chords | Ver. 1
[Intro]
E
[Verse 1]
E A F#m
See the ruins on the hill where the smoke is hanging still
B7 E
Like an echo of an age long forgotten
A F#m
There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones
B7 A B7
And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
[Verse 2]
E A F#m
Seems old Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life
B7 E
To provide her with material possessions
A F#m
And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone
B7 A B7
And the building soon became his sole obsession
[Chorus]
A B7 E
Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised
A E B7
And the silhouette was seen for miles around
E A F#m
And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky
B7 A B7
But it only took one night to bring it down
B7 E C7
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground
[Verse 3]
F F7 A# Gm7
Though they shared the common bed there was precious little said
C7 F
In the moments that were set aside for sleeping
F7 A# Gm7
For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build
C A# C7 F
And he never heard young Helen Darby weeping
[Verse 4]
F7 A# Gm7
Then one night he heard the sound and as he laid his pencil down
C7 F
He traced it to her door and turned the handle
F7 A# Gm7
And the pale light of the moon through the window of her room
C7 A# C7
Split the shadows where two bodies lay in tangle
[Chorus]
A# C7 F
Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised
A# F C7
And the silhouette was seen for miles around
F F7 A# Gm
And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky
C7 A# C7
But it only took one night to bring it down
C7 F
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground