xThe Circle Game:Buffy Saint Marie.
#76 in 1970.
#1.
D G D
Yesterday a child came out to wonder..
G A
caught a dragonfly inside a jar.
D G D F#m
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder..
G A D
and tearful at the falling of a star.
#2.
D G D
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons..
G A
skated over ten clear frozen streams.
D G D F#m
Words like, 'when you’re older,' must appease him..
G A D
and promises of ‘someday’ make his dreams.
CHORUS:
D G D
And the seasons they go round and round..
D G D
and the painted ponies go up and down.
G D
We’re captive on the carousel of time.
G F#m G
We can’t return we can only look, behind from where we came,
D A D
and go round and round and round in the circle game.
#3.
D G D
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now..
G A
cart wheels lost to car wheels, through the town.
D G D F#m
And you tell him, 'take your time it won’t be long now,'
G A D
till you drag your feet to slow those circles down.
#4.
D G D
So, the boy who dreamed tomorrow now is twenty..
G A
though his dreams have lost some grandeur, coming true.
D G D F#m
There’ll be new dreams maybe better dreams aplenty..
G A D
before the last revolving year is through.
CHORUS:
D G D
And the seasons they go round and round..
D G D
and the painted ponies go up and down.
G D
We’re captive on the carousel of time.
G F#m G
We can’t return we can only look, behind from where we came,
D A D
and go round and round and round in the circle game.
A seventies smash from Kraziekhat.
