Circle Back chords by John Hiatt

Chords with lyrics

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

Capo at 5th, transpose +5,(or leave like this to sing with baritones!)

Intro:  D MajorD B minorBm x4
   D MajorD       B minorBm       D MajorD   B minorBm
Ward Bond, was his sidekick Rowdy Yates?
       D MajorD       B minorBm      D MajorD       B minorBm
Drove that wagon train out West, right along this interstate
      G+G        E minorEm      G+G     E minorEm
Cross the high plains of Kansas to the Colorado line
        D MajorD              B minorBm         D MajorD         B minorBm
Spent a lot of sleepless nights 'round the campfire, they had mountains on their minds

D MajorD      B minorBm              D MajorD   B minorBm
Those high plains people, they're different somehow
        D MajorD          B minorBm               D MajorD        B minorBm
You spent your life leaning into a hard wind, I guess you're less likely to take a bow
      G+G         E minorEm           G+G  E minorEm
All these stories buried out here, they're calling to me
      D MajorD        B minorBm        D MajorD        B minorBm
Like the earthquakes in California like the hills back in Tennessee

     A augmentedA              E minorEm - D/F#D/F# - G+G
I gotta circle back, touch something near
      D MajorD      A augmentedA  E minorEm - D/F#D/F# - G+G
Find out which way to go to get on out of here
  A augmentedA                B minorBm - G+G
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
     D MajorD        A augmentedA       G+G (hold)    D MajorD B minorBm x2
But it takes a lot of ground for me to, change my mind

D MajorD    B minorBm         D MajorD     B minorBm
Well it's 99 in Topeka, the wind is blowin' hot
          D MajorD        B minorBm        D MajorD       B minorBm
Blowin through my oldest daughter's hair with everything else I forgot
  G+G         E minorEm      G+G           E minorEm
I drove her out to college, drove back through an empty space
     D MajorD           B minorBm      D MajorD        B minorBm
Thinkin' back to when she was a baby, tryin' hard to see that face

A augmentedA             E minorEm - D/F#D/F# - G+G
I gotta circle back, touch something near
      D MajorD      A augmentedA  E minorEm - D/F#D/F# - G+G
Find out which way to go to get on out of here
  A augmentedA                B minorBm - G+G
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
     D MajorD        A augmentedA      G+G (hold)    D MajorD B minorBm x2
But it takes a lot of ground for me to, change my mind

(Solo over verse + chorus)

D MajorD        B minorBm         D MajorD      B minorBm
Two kids up and at 'em, one more left at home
     D MajorD           B minorBm       D MajorD          B minorBm
She's a spark plug, a real fire cracker, and in four years she'll be gone
      G+G        E minorEm        G+G        E minorEm
They just blow through your life, like the wind on the plains
     D MajorD        B minorBm          D MajorD         B minorBm
Like the dust that covers everything, 'til the rivers fill with rain

A augmentedA             E minorEm - D/F#D/F# - G+G
I gotta circle back, touch something near
      D MajorD      A augmentedA  E minorEm - D/F#D/F# - G+G
Find out which way to go to get on out of here
  A augmentedA                B minorBm - G+G
I lost my thread and I've lost some time
     D MajorD        A augmentedA       G+G (hold)    D MajorD B minorBm x2
But it takes a lot of ground for me to, change my mind