{"source":"Free Chord Book","source_url":"https://www.free-chords.com","license_note":"Free for personal use. Lyrics and compositions © their respective songwriters and publishers.","tab_id":1766796,"song":"Darbys Castle","artist":"Kris Kristofferson","content_type":"chord","tab_type":"Chords","url":"https://www.free-chords.com/song/11384740-darbys-castle-chords-by-kris-kristofferson/","api_url":"https://www.free-chords.com/api/v1/songs/1766796?type=chord","rating":4.63628,"votes":52,"content":"[tab][ch]C[/ch]                   [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nSee the ruin on the hill[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWhere the smoke is hangin' still[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G7[/ch]                  [ch]C[/ch]\r\nLike an echo of an age long forgotten[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                     [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThere's a story of a home[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]           [ch]Am[/ch]        [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nCrushed beneath those blackened stones[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]              [ch]G7[/ch]                    [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the roof that fell before the beams were rotten[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nCecil Darby loved his wife[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]       [ch]Am[/ch]      [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAnd he labored all his life[/tab]\r\n[tab]   [ch]G7[/ch]                        [ch]C[/ch]\r\nTo provide her with material possessions[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                       [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd he built for her a home[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]       [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nOf the finest wood and stone[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]              [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd the building soon became his sole obsession[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nOh it took 300 days[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor the timbers to be raised[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G7[/ch]\r\nAnd the silhouette was seen from miles around[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the gables reached as high[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAs the eagles in the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nBut it only took one night to bring it down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                    [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\nWhen Darby's castle tumbled to the ground[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]                            [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThough they shared a common bed[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThere was precious little said[/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G7[/ch]                              [ch]C[/ch]\r\nIn the moments that were set aside for sleepin'[/tab]\r\n[tab]                         [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nFor his busy dreams were filled[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]          [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nWith the rooms he'd yet to build[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]G[/ch]           [ch]G7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\nAnd he never heard young Helen Darby weepin'[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]     [ch]C[/ch]                    [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nThen one night he heard a sound[/tab]\r\n[tab]      [ch]F[/ch]         [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nAs he layed his pencil down [/tab]\r\n[tab]       [ch]G7[/ch]                                   [ch]C[/ch]\r\nAnd he traced it to her door and turned the handle[/tab]\r\n[tab]                          [ch]Am[/ch]\r\nAnd the pale light of the moon[/tab]\r\n[tab]            [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\nThrough the window of the room[/tab]\r\n[tab]          [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]               [ch]G[/ch]\r\nSplit the shadows where two bodies lay entangled[/tab]\r\n\r\n[tab]       [ch]F[/ch]        [ch]G7[/ch]\r\n Oh it took 300 days[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]             [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n For the timbers to be raised[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]F[/ch]              [ch]C[/ch]               [ch]G7[/ch]\r\n And the silhouette was seen from miles around[/tab]\r\n[tab]         [ch]C[/ch]                 [ch]Am[/ch]\r\n And the gables reached as high[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]F[/ch]      [ch]Am[/ch]     [ch]Dm[/ch]\r\n As the eagles in the sky[/tab]\r\n[tab]        [ch]G[/ch]             [ch]G7[/ch]                [ch]G[/ch]\r\n But it only took one night to bring it down[/tab]\r\n[tab]                     [ch]G7[/ch]             [ch]C[/ch]\r\n When Darby's castle tumbled to the ground [/tab]","plain_text":"","chords":["C","Am","F","Dm","G7","G"],"chord_diagrams":{"Am":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,2,3,1,0],"frets":[-1,0,2,2,1,0]},"C":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,3,2,0,1,0],"frets":[0,3,2,0,1,0]},"Dm":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[0,0,0,2,3,1],"frets":[-1,-1,0,2,3,1]},"F":{"barres":[1],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[1,3,4,2,1,1],"frets":[1,3,3,2,1,1]},"G":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[2,1,0,0,0,3],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,3]},"G7":{"barres":[],"baseFret":1,"fingers":[3,2,0,0,0,1],"frets":[3,2,0,0,0,1]}}}