in the passage is played on piano , so to emulate the sound on guitar , i recommend fingerpicking .

i won’t be covering the solos or the fingerpicking patterns , but they’re fairly
easy to figure out if you know the chords .

intro : C A# C A# C A# C A# F Am G

C A#
there’s a ring around the moon tonight

C A#
and a chill in the air
C A# C – F Am G
and a fire in the stars that hang so near , so near

C A# C A#
there’s a sound in the wind that blows through the wild mountain holds

C A# C F Am G
like the sighs of a thousand crying souls , crying souls

fill : F G

there’s a time when the traveler is fated to find
that insight has turned his gaze behind , behind
and the steps taken yesterday will beckon again
and lead to his weary journey’s end , his journey’s end

( chorus )
F G Em Am – G
and in the passage from the cradle to the grave
F G Em Am – G
we are born , madly dancing
F G Em Am
rushing headlong through the crashing of the days
A# F G
we run on and on without a backwards glance
A# F G
we run on and on without a backwards glance

Am G Am Em Am
i cast my fate with the wife of lot i turned my gaze around
Am G F G
knowing neither what i sought nor what was to be found
Am G Am Em Am
heeding weakness , feeding strength , oh life at length is frail
Am G F
i seek again the river’s source through time’s dark shadowed veil

solo : C A# C A# C A# F Am G

in the fast fading century , as we spin through the years
i pray that our failing vision clears , our vision clears

( chorus )

the places dash and the faces dart like fishes in a dream
hiding ’neath the murky banks of long forgotten streams
the lines of life are never long when seen from end to end
the future’s never coming , and the past has never been

there’s a ring around the moon tonight , and a chill in the air
and a fire in the stars that hang so near , so near