DARBY'S CASTLE


1. See the ruin on the hill
   Where the smoke is hanging still
   Like an echo of an age long forgotten
   There's a story of a home
   Crushed beneath the 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

(Chorus) 
    Oh it took three hundred days
    For the timbers to be raised
    And the silhouette was seen for 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

2. 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 built
   And he never heard young Ellen Darby weepin'
   Then one night he heard a sound
   As he laid 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:

THE COUNTRY GENTLEMEN - Sit Down Young Stranger