Bobby Bare – Darbys Castle (Guitar)
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As recorded by Bobby Bare
(From the 1972 Album WHAT AM I GONNA DO?)
[Intro]
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[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