Circle Game

This is a beautiful song by Joni Mitchell that sounds great on acoustic. This is a

easy tab with great lyrics and a very pretty tune. Have fun!

A D A

Yesterday a child came out to wonder

A D E

Caught a dragonfly inside a jar

A D F#m

Fearful when the sky was full of thunder

D A E A

And tearful at the falling of a star

A D A

Then the child moved ten times 'round the seasons

A D E

Skated over ten clear frozen streams

A D F#m

Words like, when you're older, must appease him

D A E A

And promises of someday make his dreams

CHORUS:

A E A

And the seasons, they go 'round and 'round

A E A

And the painted ponies go up and down

D A

We're captured on a carousel of time

D F#m D

We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came

D F#m D E A

And go 'round and 'round and 'round in the circle game

A D A

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now

A D E

Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town

A D F#m

And they tell him, take your time it won't be long now

D A E A

'Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down

PLAY CHORUS

A D A

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty

A D E

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

A D F#m

There'll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty

D A E A

Before the last revolving year is through

PLAY CHORUS

PLAY LAST LINE OF CHORUS AGAIN