Yesterday a child came out to wonder

Caught a dragon fly 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

 

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

 

Six-teen springs and six-teen summers gone now

 

Cart-wheels turn to car-wheels thou' the town

 

And they tell him take you're time it won't be long now

 

Till you drag your feet to slow the circles down

 

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

 

So the years spin by and now the boy is twenty

 

Though his dreams have lost some grandeur coming true

 

There's be new dreams may be better dreams and plenty

 

Before the last revolving year is through

 

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

 

And go round and round and round in the circle game