Chords for Kris Kristofferson - The Circle

[D] _ [F] I wrote this song [D] for Leila Alatar and Los Desaparecidos. _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ Who killed this woman, this artist, this mother?
Who broke the candle and [A] snuffed out her life? _
Along with her husband and wounded her children
And sauntered away like a [D] beast in the night.
Not I, said the soldier, I just followed orders
And it was [A] my duty to do my job well.
Not I, said the leader, who ordered the slaughter
I'm saddened it happened, but that [D] war is hell.
Not us, said the others, who heard of the horror
And turned a cold shoulder on all [A] that was done.
_ In all the confusion, a single conclusion
The circle of sorrow has only [D] begun.
And in Argentina, straight to the circle on Sunday
_ Down [A] through the canyon they come
There are names of their mothers and daughters _
Names of their [D] fathers and sons
Stolen away with no warning, never to ever [G] return
_ _ On El Rio [D] del Muerto, _ [A] _
all the [D] bridges are burned.
_ _ [G] _ _
_ Los desaparecidos, lost in the darkness [D] alone
Gone [A] from the face of the earth with no trace left behind them
The [D] mark with the stone
And [G] the faces of los olvidados, _ only [D] survivors recall
_ [A] But for the pain and the heartbreak, _ did they [D] matter at all? _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ [A] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [D] _ _ Slowly the circle of sadness _ spins in the [A] Plaza Mayor
_ _ Lonesome remains of the madness and pain in a world gone [D] insane in a war
And a song for the broken survivors, _ [A] dancing alone in [G] the dark
_ With the silence of los [D] olvidados, _
[A] _ like a hole [D] in the heart
[A] _ [D] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _