Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song Darby's Castle, artist - Bobby Bare. Album song Bobby Bare - Help Me Make It Through the Night, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 30.11.2005
Record label: Triepke
Song language: English
Darby's Castle |
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 those blackened stones, |
And the roof that fell before the beams were rotten. |
Cecil Darby loved his wife, and he laboured 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. |
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. |
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 weeping. |
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. |
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. |