It was inspired by another song, Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain." Mitchell had met Young in 1964 at the Fourth Dimension folk club at the University of Manitoba, and encountered him again in the Yorkville district of Toronto in 1965. In the Goldmine interview From Blue to Indigo, William Ruhlman writes:Īnother early composition was "The Circle Game," Mitchell's song about a young boy's rites of passage. Written in response to Neil Young's Sugar Mountain. There'll be new dreams maybe better dreams and plentyīefore the last revolving year is through Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down Sixteen springs and sixteen summers gone nowĬartwheels turn to car wheels thru the townĪnd they tell him take your time it won't be long now Words like when you're older must appease him Then the child moved ten times round the seasons
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