Darby`s Castle Lyrics

Darby`s Castle lyrics

See the ruin on the hill 

 where the smoke is hangin still 

 like an echo of an age long forgotten 

 there's a story of a home 

 crushed beneath those blackened stones 

 and the roof that fell before the beams were rotten 

 Cecil Darby loved his wife 

 and he labored all his life 

 to provide her with material possessions 

 and he built for her a home 

 of the finest wood and stone 

 and the building soon became his sole obsession 

 

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 oh it took 300 days 

 for the timbers to be raised 

 and the silhouette was seen from miles around 

 and the gables reached as high 

 as the eagles in the sky 

 but it only took one night to bring it down 

 when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground 

 

 though they shared a common bed 

 there was precious little said 

 in the moments that were set aside for sleepin' 

 for his busy dreams were filled 

 with the rooms he'd yet to build 

 and he never heard young Helen Darby weepin' 

 then one night he heard a sound 

 as he layed his pencil down 

 and traced it to her door and turned the handle 

 and the pale light of the moon 

 through the window of the room 

 split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled 

 

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