Darby's Castle-Kris Kristofferson

[ti:Darby's Castle] [ar:Kris Kristofferson] [al:Me & Bobby Mcgee] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Darby's Castle - Kris Kristofferson [00:06.51]See the ruin on the hill where the smoke is hanging still [00:13.38]Like an echo of an age long forgotten; [00:19.24]There's a story of a home crushed beneath those blackened stones [00:25.92]And the roof which fell before the beams were rotten [00:35.09]Cecil darby loved his wife and he laboured all his life [00:41.71]To provide her with material possessions; [00:48.32]And he built for her a home of the finest wood and stone [00:54.50]And the building soon became his sole obsession [01:01.80] Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised [01:10.16]And the silhouette was seen for miles around; [01:16.84]And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky [01:22.95]-But it only took one night to bring it down [01:29.32]When darby's castle tumbled to the ground [01:38.37]Though they shared a common bed there was precious little said [01:44.86]In the moments that were set aside for sleeping: [01:51.03]For his busy dreams were filled with the rooms he'd yet to build [01:57.02]And he never heard young ellen darby weeping [02:03.70]Then one night he heard a sound as he laid his pencil down [02:12.81]And he traced it to her door and turned the handle; [02:18.99]And the pale light of the moon through the window of the room [02:24.67]Split the shadows where two bodies lay entangled [02:34.01]Oh it took three hundred days for the timbers to be raised [02:40.50]And the silhouette was seen for miles around; [02:46.17]And the gables reached as high as the eagles in the sky - [02:52.66]But it only took one night to bring it down [02:58.90]When darby's castle tumbled to the ground