The circle game

记得这首歌吗？陈美龄翻唱过。陈美龄Agnes Chan，70年代红极一时的香港歌星，东洋味极重（后来嫁到日本），笑起来露出可爱的兔牙，中分长头发，白衬衫，格子短裙，抱着一只吉他，将每首歌都唱得像儿歌般。


原唱者/作词人是Joni Mitchell ，一个加拿大民歌手。

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*

*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*

Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
Skated over ten clear frozen streams
Words like when you're older must appease him
And promises of someday make his dreams*

Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone now
Cartwheels turn to car wheels thru the town
And they tell him take your time it won't be long now
Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down*

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty
Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true
There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plenty
Before the last revolving year is through*