C                   Am
See the ruin on the hill
          F        Am      Dm
Where the smoke is hangin' still
        G7                  C
Like an echo of an age long forgotten

                     Am
There's a story of a home
          F           Am        Dm
Crushed beneath those blackened stones
        G              G7                    G
And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
      C               Am
Cecil Darby loved his wife
       F       Am      Dm
And he labored all his life
   G7                        C
To provide her with material possessions

                       Am
And he built for her a home
       F      Am       Dm
Of the finest wood and stone
        G             G7              G
And the building soon became his sole obsession

      F        G7
Oh it took 300 days
        C             Am
For the timbers to be raised
        F              C               G7
And the silhouette was seen from miles around
        C                 Am
And the gables reached as high
       F      Am     Dm
As the eagles in the sky
       G             G7                G
But it only took one night to bring it down
                    G7             C
When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground

                            Am
Though they shared a common bed
          F        Am     Dm
There was precious little said
       G7                              C
In the moments that were set aside for sleepin'
                         Am
For his busy dreams were filled
         F          Am     Dm
With the rooms he'd yet to build

       G           G7                G
And he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'

     C                    Am
Then one night he heard a sound
      F         Am     Dm
As he layed his pencil down 
       G7                                   C
And he traced it to her door and turned the handle
                          Am
And the pale light of the moon
            F      Am     Dm
Through the window of the room
          G             G7               G
Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled

       F        G7
 Oh it took 300 days
         C             Am
 For the timbers to be raised
         F              C               G7
 And the silhouette was seen from miles around
         C                 Am
 And the gables reached as high
        F      Am     Dm
 As the eagles in the sky
        G             G7                G
 But it only took one night to bring it down
                     G7             C
 When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground