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The Circle Game

Joni Mitchell

Capo 4

Intro: / G/B - Am7 / G/B - Am7 / G/B - Am7 /

       / G - C/G - / G - - - /

  G           C                G (2)

Yesterday a child came out to wonder

 G               C           D7 (2)

Caught a dragonfly inside a jar

  G                C              Bm (2)

Fearful when the sky is full of thunder

     C              Am7 (1/2)     G (1/2)  C/G (1/2)  G

And tearful at the falling of a star.  

G                     C                    G (2)

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons

G            C                  D7 (2)

Skated over ten clear frozen streams

G                       C               Bm (2)

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

      C          Am7 (1/2)          G (1/2)  C/G (1/2)  G

And promises of someday make his dreams

Chorus

G                    C                    G (2)

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now

G                   C                      D7 (2)

Cartwheels turn to car wheels through the town

          G                    C                 Bm (2)

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

            C                Am7 (1/2)      G (1/2) C/G (1/2)   G

'Til you drag your feet to slow the circle down"

Chorus

        G                 C               G (2)

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty

             G                     C                D7 (2)

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

             G                 C                   Bm (2)

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

   C               Am7 (1/2)         G (1/2)   C/G (1/2)   G

Before the last revolving year is through

Chorus

         G                      Am7

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

G (1/2)   C/G (1/2)   G (1/2)   C/G (1/2)  

game

End on last G