JAKARTA, KOMPAS.com - "The Circle Game" adalah lagu Joni Mitchell yang dirilis pada 1970.
Lagu ini menjadi penutup dari album miliknya bertajuk Ladies of the Canyon yang memuat 12 lagu.
"The Circle Game" merupakan salah satu lagu hitnya yang berasal dari album tersebut.
Baca juga: Lirik dan Chord Lagu If I Had a Hammer - Peter, Paul, and Mary
Berikut ini lirik dan chord lagu "The Circle Game" dari Joni Mitchell.
C F C
Yesterday a child came out to wonder
C F G
Caught a dragonfly inside a jar
C F Em
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
F G C
And tearful at the falling of a star
C F C
And the seasons they go round and round
C F C
And the painted ponies go up and down
F C
We're captive on the carousel of time
F
We can't return we can only look
Em F
Behind from where we came
Em F G
And go round and round and round
C
In the circle game
C F C
Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
C F G
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
C F Em
Words like when you're older must appease him
F G C
And promises of someday make his dreams
C F C
And the seasons they go round and round
C F C
And the painted ponies go up and down
F C
We're captive on the carousel of time
F
We can't return we can only look
Em F
Behind from where we came
Em F G
And go round and round and round
C
In the circle game
C F C
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
C F G
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
C F Em
And they tell him take your time it won't be long now
F G C
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down
C F C
And the seasons they go round and round
C F C
And the painted ponies go up and down
F C
We're captive on the carousel of time
F
We can't return we can only look
Em F
Behind from where we came
Em F G
And go round and round and round
C
In the circle game
C F C
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
C F G
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
C F Em
There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty
F G C
Before the last revolving year is through
C F C
And the seasons they go round and round
C F C
And the painted ponies go up and down
F C
We're captive on the carousel of time
F
We can't return we can only look
Em F
Behind from where we came
Em F G
And go round and round and round
C
In the circle game