The 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.
