Joni Mitchell - The Circle Game
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- Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
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Album: Ladies of the Canyon
Ano: 1970
Site Oficial: jonimitchell.co...
Foto: Jack Robinson, 1968 (jonimitchell.com)
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This is such a nice comment section. None of us will ever see each other ever again, yet we leave stories behind for others to take. May all the people passing through here do well with their lives and be happy. Godspeed everyone.
Beautifully said, Ace. ❤️
@@WhileMyGuineaPigGentlyWheeks I second that.
I see this comment was almost a year ago, people are still enjoying it my friend!
Made me smile
…round and round and round in the circle game. Nice comment, made me smile also.
First heard this song at a Hospice Christmas tree-lighting ceremony a few days ago. Cried all the way through. Almost 82 years old, lost my husband of 38 years last spring. I tell everyone, love your family and spend time with them now, because once they are gone, there are only the memories.
Your words moved me as much as Joni's. Hope you are well.
I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine. May you find peace and joy again. May you find comfort from those around you and praying God will wrap his arms around you and comfort you. ❤️🙏🏻
Sorry to read this, I hope you can heal remember and smile again. God bless.
I hear you 😢💔 One of my beloved family members died just this past February, and now every morning I wake up and . . . just for one fleeting moment, before I remember . . . I feel normal and happy. But then, immediately I'm stabbed by sudden pain and loss when I remember. . . and it feels like part of my own body and soul have been cut off. . . and I feel so lost and alone. 😞😪
But I believe someday, we will all be together again, when it's my time to go. In heaven, she will come running to greet me, her arthritis will be gone, and she'll finally be able to see me, her eyes won't be blind the way they had been for years before she died.
Like you said, we need to tell our family how much we love them . . . ❤️ 💔 ❤️
jarmbyfalls: I've been enjoying this song, in so many of its dimensions, and (yes) crying along with the words for more than 50 years. Every moment is a death. Every moment a birth. Like the song sings, it's a circle and each passing is a place you can only look back at while feeling the adventure of the next place.
I once spoke to a man who was about to celebrate his second new century, my first, having remembered the block party his parents gave to bring in the year 1900 when he was six. I asked him how he deals with all the loses. After he went through the long list, including two of his children ("natural causes"), all his heroes, the music that he loved, and lots more he told me, while in his wheel chair, with his ulcerated eye and weakened body, that he still gets very excited for the plans he has for tomorrow. He knew the circle game very well.
It's November 15, 2023..i'm here listening to this beautiful song...Peace and love to everyone who passes through this comment section.
I first heard this song in high school, in 1973. I find it as moving a song, as beautiful today, 2/5/24, as it was 51 years ago.
Amen!@@michaelrosenfield3163
It's February 20th 2024...I'm listening...peace n love follow through back to you...☺️
Greetings from Mr Axel Vasa the west coast wizard himself, I got something essential to share with you, Celebrate your uniqueness and strengths. They make you beautifully you love you so much ❤
I first heard this song on an Alan Watt podcast. He died in 2021.
My mother passed away on 4-19-21 from cancer. She was a fan of Joni Mitchell and this was played at her service. We miss you Mom.
My sincere condolences to you and such a wonderful tribute to your mom.
Sorry for your loss. I miss mine too.💔🎵🎵
That's lovely
My nanny passed away so I listen to it
My nanny passed away from cancer as well in September so I listen to it all the time now I really miss my nanny
I first heard this song when I had 16 springs and summers behind me. Now with 61 springs and summers behind me I appreciate this song even more. I sing it to my sons, and even though they're embarrassed at their mother's singing, I hope that they will begin to understand the passages they will go through in their lives, and share it with their children whenever they may come along.
Don’t care
Your so rude you didn’t have to comment that
WoW ! Yessss....!
Beautiful statement.
Me too!
I've loved the sound of this song for many years. Today, at age 71, I paid attention to the words. I have tears in my eyes.
i'm 63 and does same for me,few aquaintenices now,now family,great friends yea when you start to loose health?
Have you listen to Ms. Angus Chan from Hong Kong.
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait to be older. I was warned, enjoy being young while you're young, old age will come faster than you know. Truer words were never spoken. "We can't return, we can only look behind from where we came..."
I'll be 54 in two months. I remember hearing this song in my twenties thinking I have all the time in the world. Now I'm watching my teen son grow too fast!
Time really goes so fast doesn’t it?
After just sending my one and only child off to college, the meaning of this song has never hit harder. I CANNOT for the life of me get through the song without crying. the line that gets me EVERY time is "and they tell him take your time it won't be long now til you drag your feet to slow the circles down." Try telling that to a wide-eyed teenager who can't wait for their life to start. It truly, truly seems like yesterday she was catching those dragonflies in a jar. Life is amazingly fast. No matter how hard I try, I can't slow those damned circles down
Your comment has brought me to tears. I raised my grandson from the time he was 10 until he turned 18. A very bright, loving, deep thinking, trumpet playing, art contest winning tall, slender, handsome, young man. Because of the sad hole, that not being with his parents, left in his life, in confusion he dropped out of school early. This past summer he came to me and said, "Nanna, I've something very important to tell you." He had been volunteering with homeless people for years and came upon another young man who had been traveling the country like a hobo for some time. My grandson decided to go off to see the country with him and to find his way in the world. He and I rode the amtrak Coast Starlight up the California and Oregon coast together when he was 5. We had gotten off another train in Emeryville, CA and I had purchased the CD with Circle Game on it. When I hear this song, I can see myself as a teenager, my children and my grandson, walking up and down the aisles of that train. I am consoled by the fact that he sounds happier than since he was in marching band. I tried to tell his mom and dad not to grow up to quickly. Then I tried to tell him the same thing. But we are all captive on the carousel of time, like Joni says and there are just some things that our children and grandchildren have to learn for themselves. Your comment brought the tears, but they are good tears. I have to let myself cry, and let the reality touch my soul, now and then.
41 of em for me already as of Middle of this month (March). Used to be I couldn't wait to be 21! 21 came 20 years ago.
melissa hill - I sure know what you're saying. I am watching the last of my 4 sons entering his senior year in high school this year and this song makes me cry every time. I see each of my boys in the verses of this song. My 2nd son is getting married in December. The circle game is playing out before my eyes and for the life of me, I can't slow it down no matter how hard I drag my feet. Solidarity, sister.
Melissa, great comment, and so true...
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This was the lullaby my mom sang to me every night while rubbing my back and I’ve had it memorized for as long as I can remember and listening to it turning 19 made me cry really listening to the lyrics. Hope we all continue to pass this song to the next generation❤️
Sang this to my baby as I rocked her in my arms. I hope it imprinted in her little brain
My mom sang this to me and my brothers and nephew and now sings it to my daughter
That's very beautiful
thank you Lord❤
I'm singing it to my 4 year old right now 💓❤️ blessings
In 1979 my wife and I had a child, he was much like the child described in this song. We lost him two years ago on November 29th. Love you children and hold them close.
Prayers for both of you...
So sorry for your deep-seated pain.
The spirit soul is the symptom of life, it is eternal, unlike the body ( like an outer dress) which is temporary. When there is birth, there is death. Birth means the soul enter into the womb of mother through the father; Death means the soul leaves the body to take birth again in the wheel of Samsara. When our consciousness become purified, birth and death no more. Birth and death is pertaining to attachment to material body. We are not this body, we are pure consciousness. Consciousness is the symptom of soul. This individual soul has been transmigrate to different types of body countless times. Bhakti Yoga is the way to break through the shackle of repeated birth and death. Yoga means our activities is linked/connected with the Supreme creator through prayers, mantra, rituals, unalloyed devotion, spiritual advancement through reading and cultivating spiritual knowledge. There are two worlds - material and spiritual. The spiritual world is where the soul belongs.
@@Rosemary-u5z3y I obsess over life and death every day. Do human beings have a soul? And if so, can it be described in material terms? Does it survive the body after death? IS there consciousness after death? My hunch: No consciousness after death. But it's only a hunch.
Only a hunch indeed@@MarkMiller-i8q
It's August 28, 2024 and I'm sitting with my 2 month old grandson listening to Joni sing her beautiful song. I have sung this to all of my grandchildren. They love it. ❤
My middle school social studies teacher passed away today and she used to sing this during class. Rest in Peace, Mrs. H.
+mshannah1832 whats this song about
My condolences mshannah :.( Maybe she'd enjoy you remembering her through the song.
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im sooo sorry sounds like she was a wonderful person who appreciate good music🎼🎸🎭🎹
Go peacefully through the noise and haste of life. I still wonder from time to time where my 74 years went. This song talks to my soul.
Mine too, love it.
I'm 70 now, and one day some time ago I woke up 'old'. Thing is, I don't remember when it was, and didn't realize it when it happened.
I totally agree with your sentiments. I’m 72 now and hadn’t heard this song for years! I’m not crying - you’re crying! Very profound song!
My sister Christine introduced me to this song 45 years ago, when I was 14....cancer took her 5 years ago. God I miss her.
May her soul live on in heaven
I am so sorry for your loss. May the Lord Jesus Christ bless you and be with you and keep eternal love in your heart forever and ever ❤️
First heard this song when I was “a boy of twenty”. Still have the record I bought back then, over 50 years ago. Going on 72 rides on the carousel and the song is still as touching and beautiful. Just heard Joni’s rendition of Both Sides now from her Newport performance last year, as a 79 year old woman. If that is all she ever did with her life is compose and record The Circle Game and Both Sides Now would be a life well lived! God Bless Joni and thrilled to just find out she recovered from her illness. A timeless treasure!
I came here today because of This Is Us. I don't remember ever hearing this song before, but on last night's TIS this sound was uses as Rebecca moved along the cars on the train. What a poetic song and it was just perfect for the show - and just perfect for all of us, especially those of us of a certain 'senior citizen' age. Bless you Joni Mitchell. Just perfect
me too. I absolutely love this is is. I first heard this song on last weeks episode. very good song!
Beautifully said! Heard it on this is us too. Such a beautiful song! Lots of Love to you ❤️
Same here. Take love from a fellow This is us fan ❤️
My roommate loves TIU.
@@ryanhaase35 me too my favorite show
I've been riding the Carousel for going on 79 cycles and with each magical season I only am more thankful for Joni's words and music. Try as I might I'm unable to slow the circles down but joy, love and amazement grow stronger with each revolution. Thanks for the ride.
I love this song. I remember when I was really little, my mom had this on a cd. When we were in the car, we would sing to it together. I remember listening to it when I was little in the car with my mom, and she had the windows open and we were going by all of these trees and it was fall, so there were all these beautiful different colors. It was so nice. I always think about that when I hear this song.
Claire,what a beautiful memory to have of this beautiful song.Thanks for sharing it :)
yup
+Claire Smith That is really touching!
I have the exact same memory with my mother. It's one of my absolute favorite memories I have. And it was thru those memories that I became a lifelong Joni fan, twenty five years on! Cherish them, darling. It doesn't get much better than that.💕
My Grama used to sing this to me as a lullaby and now I almost forgot all it and now when I hear it I cry no matter where
I'm turning 69 in a few weeks and have loved this song from when it first came out. Tears are streaming down my face now as I look back on a life well lived and the people I've met and the friends I've made.
I cant believe she wrote this. I cant believe a human wrote this. Its so beautiful. A true art.
I can believe it. Joni Mitchell is an Angel of Art, words, music and poetry. A gift from the good God. XXX
I love this song i almost cried listening to it
@@jasonbarton6306 "almost" is nothing.
I agree.
Only a beautiful old soul could write this song. Thanks Joni.
This song is so precious to me, I can't listen to it without my chest tightening and eyes watering. My dad gave me an unusual present for my 20th birthday, a small collection of songs including this song. When I listened to it, I was happy that my dad found a nice song but didn't quite grasp the significance of it. Unfortunately he passed away a couple of years ago. In the wake of that, listening to this song suddenly had a different perspective; it was practically a recital of his thoughts watching me grow up. Now when I listen to this song, I can't help but reminisce over those years
I know it's really personal, but would you be willing to share the other songs?
The nostalgia and sentimentality of this tune really hits you when you've experienced sixty some "circles", and experienced Joni Mitchell from the beginnings of her music life. This is an anthem of my generation as much as any, and brings back a plethora of memories, and elicits strong emotions. Parents of all generations should teach their kids to relish every time of their lives and make the most of each day. There ARE no do overs.
snowbird29803 Ditto! Well said! 😎
I was 16 when this song came out, and thought 30 years was a long time away. I am 63 now. Time does go faster. And faster. And I am dragging my feet. Joni Mitchell was 27 when this came out. I think she has become the best songwriter in her genre.
@@pmhayden54 along with the talents of Paul Simon, he as well is very gifted with his music and his lyrics
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amen
This song is very near and dear to my heart. I am 22, and my grandfather shared this song with me, and what a gift! There was not a dry eye between the two of us. I long to slow the circles down just to try and get as much time with him as I can, I have so much to learn from him and not enough time. Rest assured, there is someone from Gen Z that will carry this song to the next generation. I will sing this to my kids, and share this song with my grandchildren, just like my grandfather did with me. This song will stand the test of time; The Circle Game.
I'm thrilled to know you'll be sharing this with other Gen-Z'ers. I'm Gen X myself, so this song was before my time. Luckily my parents were at the tail end of the Silent Generation (right before Boomers) and were big folk music enthuiasts, so I got exposed to this at a very young age.
As an older person ... the lyrics in this beautiful song can make it painful to listen to. She showed her genius at a young age.
I wish she'd add a couple of more stanzas.
i’m about a half hour from turning 20 and super anxious about it, this song was mentioned in one of many articles about turning 20 i was scrolling through. this is my first time hearing it and i’m sobbing hysterically.
dotty Wait til you turn 60
You’ll be fine. Unfortunately it takes years to realize what the ole folks were telling you about life was truth. Enjoy your youth. Times have and will continue to change. Having time and youth on your side 🙏🏽
@@lisaact1 Thank you so much! I'm 21 now (worst birthday to have in quarantine everr 😅) and doing what I can to enjoy each day. Even when I disagree with my folks, I try to see where they're coming from and remember they wanna look out for me.
@@dottysdokis A few months back we drove by a neighbor's house to honk and mark her 21st birthday, probably about the time you celebrated yours! Maybe you can celebrate 21 and 22 together next year. I'm glad you discovered this song.
A few years to late on this comment but (and for anyone else in this mindset/situation) check out "20" by Travis. Just a recommendation.
Reading the comments you realize how huge an effect this song has had on so many people's lives--how many people have sung it to their children, sung it in choir, at camp--how it binds together generations.
I don't think I could sing this song in front of anyone. I can't get through listening to it without crying.
It makes me think of how short life is and so many other things. This song strikes a chord with so many for different reasons. Even though it brings me to tears everytime I listen to it, it is a reminder not to waste time, to hug your wife, kids, family, friends, and to be a better person during the time we have left on this earth. God Bless...
Me: Crying writing comments??????
This song is just...... .
100% correct, especially now that I see my daughters doing the same with her kids as I did for her and my mom& dad did with us.
Aldo... listen to James Taylor. The secret of life.
What's to cry about?......Next,we'll hear he fainted!
I would give anything to go back just for one day when I was a child in 1965-1966.
Richard J Forcione I have a strong feeling that one day would be the same as
eating just one potato chip .
Me too!
Me too, Richard. Me, too. I would give everything I own.
@Robert Caskie Those memories are like precious jewels we can take out and polish on days we feel time slipping away. A song and Joni is the ticket back. I miss her so much.
I believe on the other side we will see our whole lives before us, the good the sad, how we made others feel, to ask for forgiveness to give forgiveness, all will be made right, and all will have been for our good 8n the Long view of eternities, then home again with Heavenly parents
This song gave the fuller house one of the most beautiful scenes in the entire series. What a lovely song!!
What is a fuller house?
Oliver Cromwell Its a series on Netflix (the reboot of the late 80s show ‘Full House’).
I agree with Evand Ratnour
Yep. I actually really liked this song.
THAT IS WHY I CAME TO THIS SONG! stephanie's baby got birthed ! i always cry in joy tears, but why did she want kimmy as her surroget xD
"it won't be long now till you drag your feet to slow the circles down", ouch, now that hits home...
That makes me think of all those loved ones and friends who have perished.
truer words rarely, if ever, written
@@charlesveg Yes, hitting 16 is a big day in anyone's life. Cartwheels turn to car wheels.
She has such a gift for saying something so big, so simply. Joni's the best.
Makes me cry every time
I sang this song to my sons thirty years ago every night after coming home from work … it has brought so much peace and hope as the circles have kept going round and round over the years🙏❤️
This song is a masterpiece brilliantly performed by joni, its as real now as it was 43 tears ago when I first heard it.
I assume you meant "years" instead of "tears", but "tears" works just as well. This song absolutely NEVER ceases to make me cry like a baby, every time I hear it, no matter how many times I listen.💕😭
"Tears"
Best typo ever.
I had never heard this song until last night watching one of the last episodes of " This is Us." What an eloquent, poetic gem this is.
I'm old so I remember this song clearly. I took another look at this after watching "This Is Us" latest episode. I figured this would be one of the songs they put on since the show loves full circle moments and the character of Rebecca loved Joni Mitchell. Just a beautiful song. She is one of the greatest songwriter/artists ever.
This woman gave me my voice...I was born in 1960 and watched my brothers, all older than me in '69 take off for the Woodstock festival only a couple of hours from our home in Brooklyn, NY. I was 9 then and very shy. Just before the festival one of my bothers who was a musician heard me in my room singing along with my Joni Mitchell album.. I had all of them....and taught myself the guitar chords to each of her songs so I could sing to myself when I was blue. One day my brother told me..."You sound just like her...you should be very proud" In later years, when I became a mother, I sang to my babies as I cradled each one in my carrier on our journey to the market and around the apartment, lulling each to sleep. To this day, when I feel the blues coming on, I sing to myself while going about my day. My heart broke when I heard she was rushed to the hospital. I cried and prayed...There is no one, absolutely no one who compares to this Angel on Earth. She is radiant!
I just wanted to say that this song is so inspiring to me, and I feel happy every time I listen to it. Whoever reads this, I hope you are doing well, and are living a peaceful and happy life. 🥰🙂
IMO, the great Joni Mitchell has never gotten her just due.... she is every bit Lennon and McCartney wrapped into one. The words she puts together are second to NONE! There is no equal to the clarity of her wonderful voice and the chords she strums. Thank you Joni for allowing us to enjoy your talent... a fan for life, Randy Codd
So true Randy! When she started out in the Mid. 60's the music Industry was run by men and "women in folk music" were still a novelty no matter how good they were. Most women wrote songs for others, mostly men or women groups.
A great example is Carole King who wrote everyone in the business, like The Shirelles, "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow" -1960, "Take Good Care Of My Baby" - Bobby Vee.. And Joni Mitchell wrote Woodstock in David
Geffen's Apt. in New Your City.. He thought that if she went to she wouldn't be able to get to a Dick Cavett interview
on TV, Monday on time. "Must of felt kinda silly when they watched the tube and saw all the bands getting out on
helicopters
Rusty Schoolbus To some extent I think it was less the fact that she was a woman than that the guys in the industry didn't think she had a "mainstream" enough sound. Hence, Judi Collins hits it big with "Both Sides Now" before many of us (myself included, I'm ashamed to admit), had even heard the name Joni Mitchell. (And, FYI, I'll take Joni's version of BSN over Collins' any time.)
David Rosenblatt Same with Sandy Denny. She was the only woman ever to have sung with Led Zeppelin and her songs and voice are unequalled like Joni's.
David Rosenblatt Joni had some radio hits. Not nearly as many as she should have though.
David Rosenblatt Totally agree. Judy is good but her version is over-produced and sounds very commercial. Joni's is simpler with much more soul. .
I want to have her baby (OK, I realize that's anatomically impossible...)
There is a profound introspection and wisdom in this song. Joni never fails to amaze.
I listen to this song & can't help but cry. My second grade teacher would always play this song & throughout second grade would take pictures and at the end of the year she compiled all the pictures and made a slide show with this song playing. I watch it now that I'm 20 and can feel my childhood slip through my fingers. An amazing and upsetting sensation. Beautiful song.
Your teacher left you with a real gift, then. Every so often, as you get older, you will find deeper and deeper layers of this song's meaning. I seemed to have revelations with it both at 40 and at 50 - it was like I was hearing the song for the first time again, each time.
My grandma loves this song so I am now using it for her 70th Birthday slideshow❤
I just used it for my 70th birthday last week. 10 of sang it together. A great song for all ages.
This might be the most underrated song ever
Who underrated it ? Lets kill them ! Just kidding...kind of .
@@MrCretemaniam You could say that, on a scale from 1 to 10, that this song is a 20 and it would still be underrated.
I cry every time I hear this masterpiece. Only Joni Mitchell could write something so beautiful & thought provoking.
I am not only grateful for this song but for the comments on this page, which I wholeheartedly feel at one with. It is comforting to know that the sentiments of that age have not gone but still survive with us, even if our softer voices are often drowned out by the senseless noise of this age.
I had forgotten about this song. Sure enough it was the one I remembered a dear friend from college had played for me years ago. We've lost touch now. We're both 49 now. Oh how I wish to go back to when we were 18. Man I'm crying now. Beautiful and so true.
One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard. Joni was underappreciated.
Underappreciated by whom?
She is one of the most revered folk singer-songwriters in the world! Who in the world is underappreciating her? (at least you didn't say "underrated" which is something people nowadays are saying as a sign that they like someone or something)
I sang this to my newborn son yesterday.....I first heard to song the day I was born in 1985 when my father sang it to me....Not only am I & his mother blessed, he is blessed to have us as well as grand parents & great grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins great aunts & uncles who love him. Ive waited 33 years to sing this song to him & say "Welcome to the world, my son."
This is one of the most beautiful songs written. So touching and sad.
I’ve been looking for this song for YEARS!!! I first heard it at a summer camp. We’d sing it at night, and I loved it. I forgot it soon afterwards, but kept it in my heart. Today it just popped in my head. Chills!!!! A fragment of my childhood was brought back to me. Beautiful,
In my twenties, this was just another good tune by Mitchell. But now, with the experience of years, the lyrics are so true.
Beautiful song, I first heard it in the 90s at the end of a Wonder Years episode and it somehow stuck with me. I'm happy that I'm able to appreciate this eternal music. Thanks and bravo for uploading it. Blessings to everyone out there may y'all find bliss and peace during your lifetime. Amen...✍
That series had some amazing music.
@@Buckeye2043 I know right! it's full of goodies.✍
This is where I, too, discovered this song and am SO grateful. It’s one of my favorites of all time.
@@lunablanton3031 Well, I'm glad to know that I am not the only one.✍️ HAPPY HOLIDAYS to you and yours!!! 🙌🎄🎁
This song is so beautifully written and performed by Joni. I get goosebumps on my goosebumps when I listen to it. It is one of the most relatable songs ever written in my humble opinion. I have heard it was written as a response of sorts to Neil Young's "Sugar Mountain" which is about not wanting to grow older, " You can't be twenty on Sugar Mountain, though you're thinking you're leaving there to soon". When we are young we want nothing more than to grow up faster and once we've achieved that, we want to turn the time back or at least slow it down. They say "Youth is wasted on the young" and to a point, they are right. We don't appreciate what a special time it is during our lives and it seems, nobody seems to bother to tell us. Not that I'm sure it would have made a difference. Life is so very ironic. It's only been the past few years that I have wanted to put my feet down and slow the circle that seems to be picking up speed. All I know is that I have accumulated many great memories throughout my life and when I take my last breath, it's those treasured memories that will be all I take with me. All the material things people work so hard to obtain, is for not. You spend so much time working for it, you are missing out on making the only thing that in the end, will truly matter. The memories you made during your lifetime. The rest is simply fluff.
Beautifully put and so true.
Thank you for taking the time to read that. If I could only condense my thoughts, but then I wouldn't be saying what I feel. Again, I thank you.
you are so right. I'm retired now, and having exited the Rat Race, I can appreciate this!
+MissDistarr60 - Here is info from Wiki: In a concert at the Paris Theatre in London on October 29, 1970,[2] Joni Mitchell, who was already friends with Neil Young by the time he wrote this song, opened her song "Circle Game" with this speech:Mitchell: "In 1965 I was up in Canada, and there was a friend of mine up there who had just left a rock'n'roll band (...) he had just newly turned 21, and that meant he was no longer allowed into his favourite haunt, which was kind of a teeny-bopper club and once you're over 21 you couldn't get back in there anymore; so he was really feeling terrible because his girlfriends and everybody that he wanted to hang out with, his band could still go there, you know, but it's one of the things that drove him to become a folk singer was that he couldn't play in this club anymore. 'Cause he was over the hill. (...) So he wrote this song that was called "Oh to live on sugar mountain" which was a lament for his lost youth. (...) And I thought, God, you know, if we get to 21 and there's nothing after that, that's a pretty bleak future, so I wrote a song for him, and for myself just to give me some hope. It's called The Circle Game
+MissDistarr60
Your words expressed so well what many of us who have gotten older are truly feeling...a huge THANK YOU.......memories sustain us
Man, the imagery of this song is top notch. You don't find many songs like this anymore.
Thank you Joni, for the years of beautiful music -- from my teens to my sixties.
Ken Berger me too
Ken Berger me too!
Yes. Thank you Joni.
Her voice's like a drops of christall water cascade. I loved her. And i love her today and forever.
Give circle game by P!NK a listen. Same premise different generation ☺️
I'm 18 and joni soothes me in the way my mother's lullabies did
My mom used to sing me to sleep with this song when I was little. I just found out I’m pregnant, so I’m singing it to my little one now too. 💕
That’s such a beautiful image 🥰
I worked for a long time in early childhood music research, helping teachers with pre-nate moms all the way up to pre-piano kids at age 9...I know that your baby will have a way of responding when he/she is born. Even if you don't see your baby recognize it later on, know that its melody and rhythms are being imprinted into her very first memories.
Nothing like this song to evoke bright windy Fall days and singing the chorus with one's first love...many many circles ago.Thanks Joni...
Poets (and some musicians) are our window on what we understand but cannot articulate, except in our hearts. Joni is in that pantheon, on both counts. I have always been in awe of her beauty. Thank you for posting.
Our daughter, julie, was 7 years old, 1982, first time I heard it, her 2nd grade teacher, Barb, overholt, played it on her guitar for a school performance...our daughter will celebrate her 47th birthday on feb. 24th, I just watched a movie where this was performed by elementary school children dressed like we did in the 60s.. brought back memories 😥❤
I needed that.
Whoah. I'm 7 years too late. But you're an ideal to me. Surprised to see you here :)
Me to
surprised to see you here- even tho i am 7 YEARS LATE
I'm Here in 2021 and I still need some of that !
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I first heard this song 35 years ago on the episode “Mom Wars” of The Wonder Years. I didn’t know it was Joni Mitchell. That episode stayed with me all this time. I was so touched by it. I finally found it again and I can’t stop crying as I listen to it. Now I’m a Mother and I feel it so deeply. So profound and beautiful. ❤
It's my 77th Birthday..... this Joni masterpiece is one of her finest, and my all time favourite. Our sons are 32 and 35 years old and these lyrics still ring true!
At a summer camp I go to my age group play this at end of summer every year. The entire camp usually sings it every Friday during Shabbat. I have been going to the camp sines 2016 and I now I’m 17. Next year I’ll be a counselor. It will only be a few more years till I can’t even work there anymore. This camp has shaped me and time is just flying by. My age group all cry every year to this song. This song means so so much to me and has such a special part in my heart.
We’ve been singing this at a Catholic youth camp since the 70s. We sing it around the campfire and everybody cries. I think it’s wonderful that both religions feel the same way about this song.😢
As an approaching middle aged parent of two young kids, I can't make it 20 seconds into this song without ugly crying. She captures the beauty and bittersweetness of life so well here. A true gem, that Joni.
HOW TRUE-Made sure my best friend dying of cancer had a chance to hear this and it became he favorite and listened to it as she slowly passed away. ❤️🙏😇lkh
A magical song, about life and aging from a surprisingly young women to have gleaned all these truth from life already.
What a beautiful, moving song. It never fails to fill my eyes with tears. "Cartwheels turn to car wheels..." what a lyric. Wow.
Greetings from Mr Axel Vasa the west coast wizard himself, I got something essential to share with you, Believe in your worthiness. You are enough, just as you are. Love you so much
I love this song , I lost my son at 19 and it gave me joy and sorrow genius
Sorry to know about that, Linda.
A big hug to you.
thank you, it's the worse thing in the world
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I used to sing this all the time In kindergarten. I’m 17 now, and I had completely forgot about this song until my dad played it on his USB. So many nostalgic memories came back to me, and the more I listen to this, the more I understand the depth and meaning to the lyrics.
I was that young man. After the war in the Pacific, my parents and my sister and I started a new life in a small college town in Missouri where dad taught. When I came of age, I went to war, too. I hope our children on down the ages never have to go to war again. I shudder to hear the warmongers who want to send our children off to die. There must be better answers.
thank you for your service. and yes I understand. vet also
Sure, when the politicians, stand-up and declare war on whomever, Let THEM take up arms and fight the politicians THEMSELVES, rather than the "lost generations" of youth who have fought, died and for those Politians who continue on living, long after the war is over. Simplist YES but unfortunatley it will be always the young and disinfranchised that end up on the short end.
geosutube I love you.
geosutube amen, brother.
What town did your family settle in in Missouri? I live there.
I’m balling my eyes out right now and I don’t know why. This song is so hauntingly beautiful and something about it just struck me. Every time I hear the chorus I just cry harder.
These comments 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Pull yourself together for goodness sake 😂
Everytime I hear this song I just start sobbing. It's so beautiful but at the same time it's very melancholy
me too. It is like we feel the energy of the song and it takes us to a place of sadness. I am trying to hear it kindly and lovingly and move from sadness back to okness. I know it is ok to have emotions, it is ok to feel them and it is important to recognize that they do not own us and that we do not have to go to sadness so often, that instead we can watch sadness pass through us. That we are not owned by our emotions. I know these things to be true...Just reaching out to another sensitive soul. (see my reply below to Hands)
Same!
@Darren Carver I'm also 59, turning 60 in November, and it has the same effect on me. It hits me that I'm almost 60 and I ask myself, "How can this be? Where the heck did the years go"?
my best friend turned 16 today and we both cried to this song together. i know i'm young but this song has changed my life.
this song is sheer poetry and speaks volumes about why we should never take a single day in our life for granted...for each day we wake up is a blessing...
Beautiful lady with a beautiful voice, listening to her always brings tears to my eyes remembering my youth. Love her songs.
I get teary eyed when I hear this song
Me to o . Our own mortality is a hard thing to accept. And she was so well.....Joni
Me too.
if you can experience without attaching emotion- buddhist thought of impermanence, non-attachment, that life flows downstream-like river...
Am proud of that sentiment- realized by people like you!
A beautiful summation of what LIFE is all about. Thank you, Joni!
I may not be much older than a teen, but this song was my childhood. It wasn't from parents or friends that I heard it, but a summer camp that meant the world to me. And I don't think this song will ever leave me.
I’m 65 now and I can remember when I was in my late teens early 20s liking a lot of Joni Mitchell’s songs but for some reason I did not care for this one. Maybe I didn’t take the time to listen to the words. Now that I’m old this song has so much more meaning it almost makes me cry every time I here it . God Bless you Joni Mitchell ❤️….
I didn't like the chord progressions - maybe that was why you didn't. The chords never really changed when my ear wanted them to, so it kind of stagnated. But the words more than make up for that.
I recently began to discover how true this song is myself... Beautiful, just beautiful
+Audrey Didier When we are young, even though we loved this music, we were young and arrogant enough to believe we understood the meaning behind these amazing lyrics. It's not until you have lived a life, do you TRULY understand the meaning of the song. And that can change 4 or 5 times during your lifetime, depending on your perspective at any given moment. These kinds of songs change throughout our lives depending where we are at that moment in time. Simply my humble and 55 year old opinion:) Music is magical.
+MissDistarr60 - i'm the same age as you and what really amazes me is that she wrote it when she was so young herself, like mccartneys 'yesterday'
starman714 That my friend, is a songwriter who deserves the title of "Brilliant". There were so many who came out our era.....by the droves. How fortunate we were to witness such talent pass through our young lives?
Ya I agree I have my own channel too
+MissDistarr60 - absolutely! it was truly a 'golden era' - there were great musicians always, but never
with the freedom/desire for expressive freedoms like the 60's and 70's -
just as there has always been commercialism but never on the level that
it's been since the 80's through to today - the 60-70's era was truly a special moment in time
Here is it March 1, 2024 and I am stil listening to this song, and have done so for the past half-century or longer.
70 years old here. This song has always moved me. I understand it better now. Still makes me tear up.
I was about 11 or 12 at summer camp when I learned this song sitting by the fire at night before bedtime. Many years later I found out the lovely campfire song I thought I'd never hear again was actually a famous song by Joni Mitchell, and that I could hear it any time I wanted. And when I eventually had kids of my own, I sang to them this song every night when it was time for bed. And like many of you commenting here, I also have tears in my eyes as I hear the song.
I performed this song in elementary and now listening to it again when I’m older brings memories back and tears 😭💗
As a teacher, I used it at the beginning of the year as poetry. I used it later in the year, with ukulele groups. It tells a life-story, much like The River by Garth Brooks.
I can just imagine the parents listening to kids singing this song
My father sang this song to me since I was a baby, and it was the first song I ever knew the words to. I’m not sure if there’s anything that can bring me as much comfort as this song can.
I absolutely love that song from the first time I heard it when I was in college in the 70’s!! What Joni Mitchell sings in this song is so true! She describes how life goes on and she sings the way it is in a person’s life. I love the song and Joni Mitchell and her music!
I have been listening to this masterpiece since it came out with tears in my eyes.
Now at 70 I have been fortunate to see my circle , my children's circle, my grandchildren's circle, and now am watching my great grand baby's circle begin.
I am the luckiest man alive.
Appreciate every moment and leave a place better than when you came.
Came to listen because today is my birthday and I’m reminiscing all the years that have gone by I’m 32 now but I remember as a little girl probably 25-27 years ago dancing around my aunts house with her holding hands frolicking through fields and woods with her so may beautiful memories thank you aunt Eddie
Today is my birthday too! I was born 68 years ago. 🥳🥳 That's why I could understand what the circle game is!
THIS SONG IS PURE MAGIC. I'm 33 years young and I wish to god I could have been around in the old days. 70's, 60's, 50's was a GOLDEN ERA of music that will NEVER be redone.
It's my Birthday...in less than 2 hrs...
60 sunrises I've been on this earth to experience, counting the one on my first day...arriving in the wee hours of the morning...
Childhood, Youth, Teen, Young Adult, Seasoned adult, Motherhood, and now Grandmother. Im next on the list to pass on...eventually. Oh the experiences as the circle goes round and round.
Oh what we yearn to convey to the young.
Goodwill to all of you.
A simple and yet wonderful song. We all wish Joni well and good health.
Flat out, unsurpassed genius. Nothing, absolutely nothing, compares in beauty and originality. We have devolved. The world is no longer able to produce something that uniquely beautiful. The only sense that grows keener with age is the sense of “appreciation”. Her music gets better and better as I age.
In 4th and 5th grade, I had a teacher who would use a projector with lyrics to give us a bit of music time every day. This was one of my favorite songs he would play. Thank you, Kent. This, with many more, were songs that helped us through so many obstacles in our lives. A lot of us went our own ways but never forgot what you taught us.
Such powerful lyrics delivered by one of the best of all time... Thanks Joni !
This is astoundingly beautiful musical poetry about the passage of time and the beauty of the human experience, and human heart. I love it, and it touches me deeply.
My favourite song when I was 7 years old though I didn't understand a word. Thank you.
Just beautiful, the lyrics, the melody. Thanks Joni.
I first heard this song about 10 years ago (I am almost 19) in a school music class and I fell in love with it. I hadn't listened to it in quite a while but I mentioned Joni Mitchell to one of my friends today and she had no idea who that was and it made me so sad for our generation. We have lost such great music to the crap that is played on the radio today. I feel like this is a song that everyone needs to hear at least once in their life.
As you get older this song becomes even better...... Joni Mitchell is well a genius First heard this song in the Strawberry Statement about a million years ago...... everything comes around in a circle...... maybe we will change
Holy crap I remember that movie. Wow had not thought about it in years. It had a great sound track. I remember the original Buffy Sainte Marie version.
Again, I thank you all for your comments.
Not in behalf of Joni, of course, but for my joy of discovering things I didn't know about. And that's all folks!
Thank you Bruno!
I finally read that the background singers were Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young. So sweet.
camtymomidy Stephen Stills,unmistakable ..
+camtymomidy Wow!
+MultiJaylea It's James Taylor and Jackson Brown on backing volcals.
I first heard this song in outdoor school. It was in the evening on the last night and we were all sitting around a big fire.
Years later I would sing it to my children. All 4 of them. And now I sing it for my grandbabies. It holds a very special place in my heart ♥️
It's rare that a song can be so wise and so moving simultaneously.
I’ve consistently shared this song with my grandchildren. I pray that when I’m gone, they’ll find consolation and inspiration in this song.