The Circle Game original guitar chords by 
Joni Mitchell 
Key: B major•
Intro 1
B/D#
C#m7
B/D#
C#m7
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
Verse 1
B
E/B
B
Yesterday a child came out to wander
B
E/B
F#7add4
Caught a dragon fly inside a jar
B
E/B
D#m
Fearful when the sky was full of thunder
Eadd9
B
And tearful at the falling
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
of a star
Chorus 1
B
B/D#
C#m7
B
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go
B/D#
C#m7
B
up and down
E/B
B
We're captive on the carousel of time
E/B
We can't return we can only look
D#m
Eadd9
Be hind from where we came
B
And go round and round
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
and round in the circle game
Verse 2
B
E/B
Then the child moved ten times
B
'round the seasons
B
E/B
F#7add4
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
B
E/B
Words like when you're older
D#m
must ap pease him
Eadd9
B
And promises of someday
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
make his dreams
Chorus 2
B
B/D#
C#m7
B
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go
B/D#
C#m7
B
up and down
E/B
B
We're captive on the carousel of time
E/B
We can't return we can only look
D#m
Eadd9
Be hind from where we came
B
And go round and round
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
and round in the circle game
Verse 3
B
E/B
Sixteen springs and sixteen summers
B
gone now
B
E/B
Cartwheels turn to car wheels
F#7add4
through the town
B
E/B
And they tell him take your time
D#m
it won't be long now
Eadd9
B
'Til you drag your feet to slow
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
the cir cles down
Chorus 3
B
B/D#
C#m7
B
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go
B/D#
C#m7
B
up and down
E/B
B
We're captive on the carousel of time
E/B
We can't return we can only look
D#m
Eadd9
Be hind from where we came
B
And go round and round
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
and round in the circle game
Verse 4
B
E/B
So the years spin by and now the boy
B
is twenty
B
E/B
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur
F#7add4
coming true
B
E/B
There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams
D#m
and plenty
Eadd9
B
Be fore the last re volving
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
year is through
Chorus 4
B
B/D#
C#m7
B
And the seasons they go round and round
And the painted ponies go
B/D#
C#m7
B
up and down
E/B
B
We're captive on the carousel of time
E/B
We can't return we can only look
D#m
Eadd9
Be hind from where we came
B
And go round and round
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
B
and round in the circle game
B/D#
And go round and round
C#m7
and round in the circle
B
E/B
B
E/B
game
B
B
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsB/D# C#m7 B E/B F#7add4...
B/D#
C#m7
B
E/B
F#7add4
D#m
Eadd9
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