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Darby’s Castle

Source Recording: Jason Davis (2013)

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Song Details

Songwriter

Kris Kristoferson

First Release

Roger Miller (1969)

Genres

Country

Themes

Infidelity

Attributes

Minor Chords

Popularity

Uncommon

Source Recording

Artist

Jason Davis

Album

Second Time Around (2013)

Key B Time Boom-Chuck Tempo 97 BPM Length 3:52 ISRC USMTG1306305

Musicians

Greg Luck — Lead Vocals
Dwight McCall — Backup Vocals
Keith McKinnon — Guitar
Kevin McKinnon — Mandolin
Jason Davis — Banjo
Justen Haynes — Fiddle
Kameron Keller — Bass

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Darby's Castle

1 4 1 2m

See the ruin on the hill where the smoke is hanging still

5 4 1

Like an echo of an age long forgotten

4 1 2m

There’s a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones

5 4 1

And the roof which fell before the beams were rotten

Cecil Darby loved his wife and he labored all his life

To provide her with material possessions

So he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone

And the building soon became his sole obsession

5 1

Oh, it took three-hundred days for the timbers to be raised

4 5

The silhouette was seen for miles around

1

And the gables reached as high as eagles in the sky

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But it only took one night to bring it down

1

When Darby’s castle tumbled to the ground

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 Ellen Darby weeping

Then one night he heard a sound as he laid his pencil down

And traced it to her door and turned the handle

In the pale light of the moon through the window of the room

Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled

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