Darby's Castle Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Intro 1]
[G][D][A][D]

[Verse 1]
See the [D]ruin on the hill
where the [G]smoke is hanging [Em]still
Like an [A]echo of an age long forgot[D]ten[A]
[D]There's a story of a home crushed be
[G]neath those blackened stone[Em]s
And the [A]roof that fell be[G]fore
the beams were [A]rotten
Seems [D]old Darby loved his wife
and he [G]labored all [Em]his life
[A]To provide her with ma[D]teri
[A]al posses[D]sions
And he built for her a home of the
[G]finest wood and stone
[Em]And the buil[A]ding soon be
[G]came his sole obses[A]sion
Oh it took [G]three hundred [A]days for
the tim[D]bers to be raised
And the [G]silhouette [D]was seen
for miles [A]around
And the [D]gables reached as high
as the [G]eagles in [Em]the sky
But [A]it only took one [G]night to bring [A]it down when Darby's
castle tumbled to the [D]ground

[Interlude 1]
[D][A][D]

[Verse 2]
Though they [D]shared the common bed
there was [G]precious little [Em]said
In the [A]mo ments that were
set aside for sleep[D]ing
For his busy dreams were filled
with the [G]rooms he'd yet [Em]to build
And he [A]never heard young
Helen [G]Darby weep[A]ing
Then [D]one night he heard the sound
[G]as he laid his pencil [Em]down
And [A]he traced it to her door
and turned the [D]handle
And the pale light of the moon through
the [G]window [Em]of the room
Split the [A]shadows where
two bod[G]ies lay [A]in tangle
Oh [G]it took three hundred days

[Outro 1]
[A][D][G]
[D][A][D][G][Em]
[A][G][A][D]
[A][D][A][D]