歌曲名 Circle of Steel

歌手名 Gordon Lightfoot

作词：Gordon Lightfoot

作曲：Gordon Lightfoot

Rows of lights in a circle of steel

Where you place your bets on a

great big wheel

High windows flickerin' down

through the snow

A time you know

Sights and sounds of the people

goin' 'round

Everybody's in step with the season

A child is born to a welfare case

Where the rats run around like they

own the place

The room is chilly the building is old

That's how it goes

The doctor's found on his

welfare round

And he comes and he leaves

on the double

Deck the halls was the song

they played

In the flat next door where

they shout all day

She tips her gin bottle back

till it's gone

The child is strong

A week a day they will take it away

For they know about all her bad habits

Christmas dawns and the snow let's up

And the sun hits the handle of

her heirloom cup

She hides her face in her hands

for a while

Says look here child

Your father's pride was his

means to provide

And he's servin' three years

for that reason

Rows of lights in a circle of steel

Where you place your bets on a

great big wheel

High windows flickerin' down

through the snow

A time you know

Sights and sounds of the people

goin' 'round

Everybody's in step with the season