From: "Little F" <littlef@ix.netcom.com>
Date: Fri, 17 Aug 2001 15:35:15 -0500


I just picked this out.  I think its pretty close.  - any suggestions?

"Darby's Castle" by Shawn Mullins
Capo 2

        G           Em
See the ruin on the hill
          C        Em     A
where the smoke is hangin still
        D                      G
like an echo of an age long forgotten

          G          Em
there's a story of a home
          C           Em        A
crushed beneath those blackened stones
        D
and the roof that fell before the beams were rotten

      G               Em
Cecil Darby loved his wife
       C       Em      A
and he labored all his life
   D                            G
to provide her with material possessions

       G               Em
and he built for her a home
       C      Em       A
of the finest wood and stone
        D
and the building soon became his sole obsession

 CHORUS
              C        D
 oh it took 300 days
                G             Em
 for the timbers to be raised
                C              G               D
 and the silhouette was seen from miles around
                G                 Em
 and the gables reached as high
               C   -  Em  -  Am
 as the eagles in the sky
               D
 but it only took one night to bring it down
                                           G
 when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground


G   C    G    C

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 he*
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


CHORUS:
              C        D
 Oh it took 300 days
                G             Em
 for the timbers to be raised
                C              G               D
 and the silhouette was seen from miles around
                G                 Em
 and the gables reached as high
               C   -  Em  -  Am
 as the eagles in the sky
               D
 but it only took one night to bring it down
                                           G
 when Darby's castle tumbled to the ground


C. B. A. A. G.