Buffy Sainte-Marie - The Circle Game
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The Circle Game (Description to follow) NOTE: This song by Buffy was featured in 'THE STRAWBERRY STATEMENT', a 1970 film about the counterculture and student revolts of the 1960s, ... loosely based on the Columbia University protests of 1968. --LYRICS-- Yesterday a child came out to wonder Caught a dragonfly inside a jar Fearful when the sky was full of thunder And tearful at the falling of a star Then the child moved ten times round the seasons Skated over ten year frozen streams Words like 'when you're older' must appease him And promises of 'someday' make his dreams And the seasons, they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on a carousel of time We can't return, we can only look, behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now Cart wheels cross to car wheels through the town And you tell him take your time it won't be long now Till you drag your feet to slow those circles down So the boy who dreamed tomorrow now is twenty Though his dreams have lost some grandeur, coming true There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams a plenty Before the last revolving year is through And the seasons they go round and round And the painted ponies go up and down We're captive on the carousel of time We can't return we can only look behind from where we came And go round and round and round in the circle game Buffy Sainte-Marie Saint Marie folk |
