Darbys Castle chords by Kris Kristofferson

Chords with lyrics

C majorC          A minorAm
See the ruin on the hill

     FF    A minorAm   DmDm
Where the smoke is hangin' still

    G7G7         C majorC
Like an echo of an age long forgotten


           A minorAm
There's a story of a home

     FF      A minorAm    DmDm
Crushed beneath those blackened stones

    G+G       G7G7          G+G
And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten

   C majorC        A minorAm
Cecil Darby loved his wife

    FF    A minorAm   DmDm
And he labored all his life

  G7G7            C majorC
To provide her with material possessions


            A minorAm
And he built for her a home

    FF   A minorAm    DmDm
Of the finest wood and stone

    G+G       G7G7       G+G
And the building soon became his sole obsession


   FF    G7G7
Oh it took 300 days

    C majorC       A minorAm
For the timbers to be raised

    FF       C majorC        G7G7
And the silhouette was seen from miles around

    C majorC         A minorAm
And the gables reached as high

    FF   A minorAm   DmDm
As the eagles in the sky

    G+G       G7G7        G+G
But it only took one night to bring it down

          G7G7       C majorC
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground

              A minorAm
Though they shared a common bed

     FF    A minorAm   DmDm
There was precious little said

    G7G7               C majorC
In the moments that were set aside for sleepin'

             A minorAm
For his busy dreams were filled

     FF     A minorAm   DmDm
With the rooms he'd yet to build


    G+G      G7G7        G+G
And he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'


   C majorC          A minorAm
Then one night he heard a sound

   FF     A minorAm   DmDm
As he layed his pencil down

    G7G7                  C majorC
And he traced it to her door and turned the handle

             A minorAm
And the pale light of the moon

      FF   A minorAm   DmDm
Through the window of the room

     G+G       G7G7        G+G
Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled


    FF    G7G7
 Oh it took 300 days

     C majorC       A minorAm
 For the timbers to be raised

     FF       C majorC        G7G7
 And the silhouette was seen from miles around

     C majorC         A minorAm
 And the gables reached as high

    FF   A minorAm   DmDm
 As the eagles in the sky

    G+G       G7G7        G+G
 But it only took one night to bring it down

           G7G7       C majorC