Circle Of Steel Lyrics - Gord's Gold - 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 doctors found on his welfare rounds 

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 its 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 lets 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 fathers 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