Circle Of Steel-Gordon Lightfoot

[ti:Circle Of Steel] [ar:Gordon Lightfoot] [al:Gord's Gold] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Circle Of Steel - Gordon Lightfoot [00:08.66]Written by：Gordon Lightfoot [00:17.32]Rows of lights in a circle of steel [00:21.22]Where you place your bets on a great big wheel [00:25.16] [00:26.24]High windows flickerin' down through the snow [00:30.28] [00:31.45]A time you know [00:33.26] [00:33.84]Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round [00:37.59]Everybody's in step with the season [00:40.62] [00:43.56]A child is born to a welfare case [00:47.81]Where the rats run around like they own the place [00:51.70] [00:53.12]The room is chilly the building is old [00:56.80] [00:57.96]That's how it goes [01:00.04]The doctor's found on his welfare round [01:04.06]And he comes and he leaves on the double [01:07.43] [01:10.47]Deck the halls was the song they played [01:14.18]In the flat next door where they shout all day [01:18.04] [01:19.17]She tips her gin bottle back till it's gone [01:23.17] [01:24.40]The child is strong [01:26.48]A week a day they will take it away [01:30.29]For they know about all her bad habits [01:33.84] [01:43.08]Christmas dawns and the snow let's up [01:46.77]And the sun hits the handle of her heirloom cup [01:50.50] [01:51.74]She hides her face in her hands for a while [01:55.72] [01:57.07]Says look here child [01:59.21]Your father's pride was his means to provide [02:03.24]And he's servin' three years for that reason [02:06.21] [02:09.53]Rows of lights in a circle of steel [02:13.26]Where you place your bets on a great big wheel [02:17.08] [02:18.31]High windows flickerin' down through the snow [02:22.24] [02:23.48]A time you know [02:25.13] [02:25.91]Sights and sounds of the people goin' 'round [02:29.44]Everybody's in step with the season