Key: E
Introduction:
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See the ruin on the hill
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where the smoke is hangin still
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like an echo of an age long forgotten
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there's a story of a home
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crushed beneath those blackened stones
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and the roof that fell before the beams were rotten
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Cecil Darby loved his wife
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and he labored all his life
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to provide her with material possessions
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and he built for her a home
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of the finest wood and stone
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and the building soon became his sole obsession
CHORUS
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oh it took 300 days
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for the timbers to be raised
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and the silhouette was seen from miles around
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and the gables reached as high
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as the eagles in the sky
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but it only took one night to bring it down
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when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground
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Though they shared a common bed
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there was precious little said
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in the moments that were set aside for sleepin'
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for his busy dreams were filled
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with the rooms he'd yet to build
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and he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'
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then one night he heard a sound
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as he layed his pencil down and he
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traced it to her door and turned the handle
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and the pale light of the moon
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through the window of the room
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split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled
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Oh it took 300 days
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for the timbers to be raised
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and the silhouette was seen from miles around
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and the gables reached as high
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as the eagles in the sky
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but it only took one night to bring it down
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when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground