Buffy Sainte Marie - "Little Wheel Spin and Spin"

Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

Merry Christmas Jingle Bells
Christ is born and the devils in hell
hearts they shrink Pockets swell
Everybody know and nobody tell
Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

Oh the sins of Caesars men
cry the pious citizens
who petty thieve the 5 & 10s
and the big wheels turn around and around
Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

Blame the angels, blame the fates,
Blame the Jews or your sister Kate
Teach your children how to hate
and the big wheels turn around and around
Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

Turn your back on weeds youve hoed
silly sinful seeds youve sowed
Add your straw to the camels load
Pray like hell when your world explode
Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

Swing your girl fiddler say
Later on the piper pay
Do see do, swing and sway
Dead will dance on judgement day
Little Wheels Spin and Spin Big wheels turn around & around (4x)

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• Buffy
• Sainte
• Marie
• Little
• Wheel
• Spin
• and
• Big
• Turn
• Around
• Native
• American
• Music
• Soundtrack

[swankyspoon]

Love this song. So disturbing...

[59Ruda]

Buffy never made it big time like the people like Beyonce...but she sure is a lot more talented and could write lyrics and sing like hell! I think new musicians today need to go back and listen to Buffy Sainte Marie, Judy Collins, Joan Baez and Joni Mitchell.

[ReneODeay]

beautiful song. still so pertinent to the media and politics these days

[sunsdomain]

I haven't heard this song since the very early 70's - but it's stuck in a dark little spooky spot in my mind ever since.

[RaimonTarou]

im not an expert but my take on the lyrics is that shes basically singing about the natural law of consequence and karma, that evil deeds done by a person will accumulate over time and inevitably come back to bite him/her, wether they like it or not. The use of the imagery of a wheel spinning is sort of like a warning to an impending danger or doom in the future,as the wheel of time spins and spins, nearer and nearer will we come to the day where we will be judged.

[Wildwoodflowerify]

great song :)

[Hitmanbaily]

THIS SONG IS SO TRUE ABOUT WHATS GOING TO HAPPEN

[jezus92191]

this songs the only thing my old man ever gave me in life and it almost makes up for it lol

[204moneychic]

this song is weird, i don't understand the meaning of it lol

[SynonymousInc]

This song feels like De ja vu.... the now kind

[justplainjena]

I first heard this song when I was leaving home. Now that I'm here, the song remains. It is as real and true now as it was to me then. BeautifuL.