Chords for Joni Mitchell - Circle Game - Live 1974

[G] That's one thing that's always like
Been a major difference between like the performing arts to me and being a painter
You know like a painter does a painting and he does a painting.
That's it
You know he said the joy of creating it and hangs it on some wall somebody buys it
Somebody buys it again, or maybe nobody buys it and it sits up in a loft somewhere till he dies
But he's never they nobody ever says to him.
You know nobody ever said to van go paint a starry night again, man
_ _ You know he painted it that was it _ _ _ _ _ _ let's sing this song [G#] together, okay?
_ [E] The song doesn't [Em] sound good with one lonely voice
It sounds good with the more voices on it the better and the more out of tune voices on it the better
[F#m] _ [A] No, it was really it was made for out of tune singing this song _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bm] _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _
_ _ Yesterday a [Bm] child came out [A] to wonder _ _ _ _
_ _ Caught a dragon [D] fly _ [G] inside [Em] a jar
_ [A] _ [G] Fearful _ _ [A] _ _ when the [Bm] sky [A] was full of [C#m] _ thunder _ _ _
And [D] _ tearful at [A] the fall of a [D] star
[A] I'm getting my best out of tune voice on okay here we go _ and the seasons they go round
And round and the painted ponies go [Bm] up [A] and down
We're captive on the carousel of time
_ _ They _ _ _ can't [D] return we can only [A] [C#m] look
behind from where [D] we came [A] and _
_ _ _ _ [Bm] _ [A] _ _
Oh
[D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ Then the child [F#m] moved ten times round the _ [A]
sea _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Skated over ten clear frozen _
[E] streams
_ _ _ _ [A] Words like when you're old
must [C#m]
appease him
_ _ _ _ [D] and
Promises [A] of some day make up his dreams
_ [D] _ [A] _ _ _ and the seasons
They go [Bm] round [A] and round and the painted ponies
[Bm] up [F#m] and down _
We're captive on the [D] _ [A] carousel of time
_ We _ _ _ [F#m] _
can't return [D] we can [A] only look
[C#m]
behind from where [D] we came [F#m] and _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _
_ [D] _ _ [A] _ _ _ _
Oh
Sixteen [Bm] springs and
[E] sixteen [A] summers gone [D] now
[A] _ _ _ _
Cart wheels turn to car wheels through [G] the town
_ _ [A] _ _ [Em] Each [A] _
other take [Bm] your time [A] because it won't be [C#m] long _ now
_ Oh till [D] you drag your feet [C#m] just to slow the [A] circles [D] down
_ [A] And _ the seasons they go [Bm] round [A] and round and the painted ponies go up and [D] down
We're captive on the _ [F#m] carousel of time
_ _ [A] We _ _ [D] _
can't return we can [A] only look
[C#m]
behind from where [D] we came and
[A]
And round _ _ [F#m] _ in the circle _ [D] game
_ [A] _ _ _ So the years spin by [D] and now the [A] boy is twenty
_ [D] _ [A] _ Though his dreams have lost a lot of [D] grandeur [A] coming [Em] true
_ _ _ _ [A] They'll be new dreams, [Bm] maybe better [A] dreams
[C#m]
There'll be plenty of new dreams
[D] Before the last
[A] _ revolving year is through
[D] _ [A] _ _ _ And the seasons they go [Bm] round [A] and round and the painted ponies go [Bm] up [F#m] and down _
We're captive [D] on the _ [A] carousel of time _
[D] _ _ [A] We _ _ _ [D] _
can't return we can [A] only look
[C#m]
behind from where [F#m] we came and _
_ In _ the circle _
[D] game
_ [A] _ _ _ _ _
In _ [Bm] _ the [A] circle game
_ _ [Bm] _ _ _ [A] _ [G] _ _ [A] _ [Em] _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
[A] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ [Bm] _ _ _ [D] _ _ _ _