Hoop Dancer
Hoop Dancer

Hoop Dancer easy guitar chords by Bruce Cockburn

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Guitar
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  • Intro 1



    Verse 1
    Tokyo 

    Jet 
    lag 

    Evening 
    walk
    ing 

    Out 
    of 
    my 
    throat 
    appears 
    this 
    chuckle 

    A true 
    20th Century 
    sound 

    little crazed 
    and 
    having no 

    tonal 
    center 

    The echoes 
    of 
    this 
    laugh 
    fade 
    for 
    Verse 2
    long 
    time 

    Snaking 
    among 
    those 
    jumbled 

    pedestrians 

    Following 
    that 
    strug
    gling 

    Cedric 
    taxicab 

    Sliding 
    over 
    the seeming 
    infinity 
    of 

    white 
    light 
    and 
    neon 

    Interlude 1


    Verse 3
    With 
    no 
    warning, 

    mind's 
    eye 
    wink
    like a 
    lifespan 

    And opens 
    again 
    on 
    memory 

    flashes 
    of 
    prairie 
    Indian 
    dancers 

    They're 
    on a stage, 

    all 
    jigging 
    motion 

    And flare 
    of 
    bright 
    feathers, 

    surrounded 
    by 
    white 
    faces 

    Floating 
    on a 
    sea 
    of mud 

    Hoop 
    dancer 
    strut
    in front, 

    drum 
    and 
    voices 
    blend 
    with 
    endless 
    rain 

    Interlude 2


    There's 
    a time 
    line 
    Verse 4

    Something 
    like 
    vertical, 

    like 
    perpendicular 

    Cutting 
    through 
    fig
    ures 
    shuff

    ling 
    on 
    horizontal 
    plane 

    Cutting 
    through the 
    sur
    vival 

    pride 
    of the dan
    cers 

    Through 
    the guilty, 

    sentimental 
    warmth 
    of the 
    crowd 

    Through 
    to 
    some 
    essence 
    common 
    to 
    us, 

    to 
    original 
    man 

    To 
    per
    haps 
    descendants, 

    numberless 
    or few 

    Verse 5
    Where 
    it intersects 
    the space 
    at hand 

    This 
    Shaman 
    with the hoops 
    stands 

    Aligned 
    like 
    living 
    magnetic 
    needle 
    between 

    deep 
    past 
    and looming 
    future 

    Butterfly 
    pierced 
    on 
    each drum 
    beat, 

    wing 
    beat 

    Thunder 
    clap, 
    storm 
    front, 
    static 
    spark 

    Energy 
    circle 
    delineated 
    by 

    Interlude 3
    leaping 
    limbs 


    Verse 6
    First 
    man, 
    last 
    man, 
    dancing 
    man, 

    man 
    dancing 

    Hoops 
    in 
    hand 
    trampled 
    grass 

    circle 
    spreading 

    Voices 
    flame 
    above 
    crazy 
    coyote 
    heart
    beat 

    drum 

    Interlude 4

    Verse 7
    see 
    sun
    rise 
    on 
    the plain
    s, 

    big 
    river 
    at 
    dusk 

    Per
    petual 
    pillar 
    of 
    dust 
    on 
    prairie 

    rim 
    and al
    ways 
    overhead 

    Those 
    wings, 
    circling, 
    turn
    ing 


    Verse 8
    He's 
    the 
    earth, 

    he's 
    the 
    egg, 
    he's 
    the 
    eagle 
    al
    ways 
    circ
    ling 

    Al
    ways 
    turning, 
    al
    ways 
    comes 
    back 
    to 
    the center

    Interlude 5








    Verse 9
    Hoops 
    whirling, 
    now 
    transpar
    ent 
    feet 
    touch 

    down 
    on anaconda 
    streets 

    And on the 
    next 
    leap 
    dis
    solve 
    slowly 

    into 
    the moving 
    lights 

    Verse 10
    Rainbow 
    steps, 
    jerking 
    universe 

    Goodbye, 
    man- 
    in- time 

    And just 
    beyond 
    the clatter 
    and 
    cars 

    the last 
    long 
    notes 
    of wild 
    voices 
    ring 

    Like 
    Roland's 
    horn 

    Outro 1

















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