The Circle Game-Buffy Sainte-Marie

[ti:The Circle Game] [ar:Buffy Sainte-Marie] [al:The Best Of] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Circle Game - Buffy Sainte-Marie [00:07.45]Yesterday a child came out to wonder [00:12.98] [00:13.82]Caught a dragonfly inside a jar [00:19.13] [00:20.03]Fearful when the sky was full of thunder [00:25.49] [00:26.17]And tearful at the falling of a star [00:32.19] [00:32.83]Then the child moved ten times round the seasons [00:38.67] [00:39.22]Skated over ten clear frozen streams [00:44.83] [00:45.45]Words like when you're older must appease him [00:51.34] [00:52.02]And promises of someday make his dreams [00:57.71] [00:58.24]And the seasons they go round and round [01:01.80]And the painted ponies go up and down [01:05.11] [01:05.69]We're captive on the carousel of time [01:11.20] [01:11.97]We can't return we can only look behind [01:15.64]From where we came [01:17.32]And go round and round and round [01:20.37]In the circle game [01:23.55] [01:27.71]Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now [01:33.74] [01:34.26]Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town [01:40.15]And they tell him [01:41.58]Take your time it won't be long now [01:46.73]Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down [01:53.32]So the boy would be tomorrow is now twenty [01:59.20] [01:59.79]Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true [02:05.53] [02:06.10]There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty [02:12.80]Before the last revolving year is through [02:19.32]And the seasons they go round and round [02:22.86]And the painted ponies go up and down [02:26.85]We're captive on the carousel of time [02:32.64] [02:33.27]We can't return we can only look behind [02:36.89]From where we came [02:38.77]And go round and round and round [02:41.55]In the circle game [02:42.77]And go round and round and round [02:45.01]In the circle game [02:46.33]And go round and round and round [02:48.22]In the circle game