KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

KRIS KRISTOFFERSON - The Circle guitar chord

The Circle (Song for Layla al-Attar and Los Olvidados)

written by Kris Kristofferson

from the album "Broken Freedom Song: Live From San Fransisco"

tabbed 9/23/05

INTRO: D

D

Who killed this woman, this artist, this mother

A

Who broke the candle and snuffed out her light

Along with her husband and wounded her children

D

And sauntered away like a beast in the night

D

Not I, said the solider, I just followed orders

A

It was my duty to do my job well

Not I, said the leader who ordered the slaughter

D

I'm saddened it happened but then war is hell

Not us, said the others who heard of the horror

And turned a cold shoulder on all that was done

In all the confusion a single conclusion

The circle of sorrow has only begun (and in Argentina)

D A

Straight to the cirlce on Sunday, down thru the canyons they come

D

Bearin' names of their mothers and daughters, names of their fathers and sons

G

Stolen away with no warnin', never to ever return

D A7 D

On El Rio del Muerto, all of the bridges are burned

BRIDGE:

G D

Los Desaparecidos, lost in the darkness alone

A D

Gone from the face of the Earth with no trace left behind them to mark with a stone

G D

And the faces of Los Olvidados, only survivors recall

A D

But for the pain and the heartbreak, did they matter at all

SOLO: D A D

D A

Slowly the circle of sadness spins in the Plaza Mayor

D

Lonesome remains of the madness and pain in a world gone insane in a war

G

And a song for the broken survivors, dancing alone in the dark

D A7 D

With the silence of Los Olvidados, like a hole in the heart

BRIDGE

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