Circle Back chords by John Hiatt

Tuning: Standard

Difficulty: Novice

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

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

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

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

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

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

(Solo over verse + chorus)

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

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