The Circle Game(Bar) Joni Mitchell Chord Chart Page 3
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1
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3THE CIRCLE GAME
Joni Mitchell
4/4 1…2…1234
Intro: last 2 lines of chorus
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E7
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E7 E7sus E7
Yesterday a child came out to wonder.
Caught a dragon-fly inside a jar
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C#m7
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E7
A Asus A Asus
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder…and tearful at the falling of a star
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E7
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E7 E7sus E7
Then the child moved 10 times round the seasons.
Skated over 10 clear frozen streams
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C#m7
Words like "when you're older" must ap-pease him
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And promises of "someday" make his dreams
CHORUS:
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And the seasons they go round and round and the painted ponies go up and down
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We're captive on a carousel of time
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We can't return, we can only look be-hind from where we came
C#m7
Bm7
E7
A Asus A Asus
And go round and round and round in the circle game.
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E7
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
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E7sus E7
Cartwheels turn to carwheels through the town
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C#m7
And they tell him, take your time, it won't be long now
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'Til you drag your feet to slow the circles down
CHORUS:
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E7
So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
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Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
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There’ll be new dreams, maybe better dreams and plenty
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Be-fore the last re-volving year is through.
CHORUS & CODA
C#m7
Bm7
E7
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Asus A
CODA: And go round and round and round (X3)
in the circle game.
RITARD
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