"Darby's Castle"
Kris Kristofferson


       G           Em
See the ruin on the hill
          C        Em     Am
where the smoke is hangin still
        D                      G
like an echo of an age long forgotten

          G          Em
there's a story of a home
          C           Em        Am
crushed beneath those blackened stones
        D              D7                    D
and the roof that fell before the beams were rotten

      G               Em
Cecil Darby loved his wife
       C       Em      Am
and he labored all his life
   D                            G
to provide her with material possessions

       G               Em
and he built for her a home
       C      Em       Am
of the finest wood and stone
        D              D7              D
and the building soon became his sole obsession

 CHORUS
        C        D
 oh it took 300 days
           G             Em
 for the timbers to be raised
         C                G               D
 and the silhouette was seen from miles around
          G                 Em
 and the gables reached as high
         C   -  Em  -  Am
 as the eagles in the sky
         D            D7
 but it only took one night to bring it down
      D              D7                 G
 when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground


G   C    G    C
      G                      Em
Though they shared a common bed
             C      Em     Am
there was precious little said
        D                                G
in the moments that were set aside for sleepin'
                          Em
for his busy dreams were filled
           C        Em     Am
with the rooms he'd yet to build
         D               D7          D
and he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'

    G                      Em
then one night he heard a sound
        C       Em     Am
as he layed his pencil down and he
D                                     G
traced it to her door and turned the handle
                           Em
and the pale light of the moon
              C     Em     Am
through the window of the room
          D                 D7          D
split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled


CHORUS:
         C        D
 Oh it took 300 days
            G             Em
 for the timbers to be raised
                C         G               D
 and the silhouette was seen from miles around
          G                 Em
 and the gables reached as high
           C   -  Em  -  Am
 as the eagles in the sky
         D            D7 
 but it only took one night to bring it down
      D              D7                 G
 when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground