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NEEDLES AND PINS by JACKIE de SHANNON in C This is the best version by the writer of the song in the key that she sings it in – really soulful, with a clever key change. If you find the intro challenging it is easier in the key of D, but it leaves you with a key change to F#! You can play the intro through most of the first and second verse, but definitely half the intro where the -------------- appears. Listen to Jackie’s version and you will soon pick it up. The song actually fades, but I have added a final line Mike Perry Intro: CCsus2CCsus2Csus4CCsus2CCsus2C x2 e-0---0---1-0-------0-0---1-0-----0-----0---------------------| B-1-3-1-3-1-1-3s5s3-1-1-3-1-3-1-1-3s5s3-1---------------------| G-0-0-0-0-0-0-------0-0-0-0-0-0-0-------0---------------------| D-2-2-2-2-2-2-------2-2-2-2-2-2-2-------2---------------------| A-3-3-3-3-3-3-------3-3-3-3-3-3-3-------3---------------------| E-------------------------------------------------------------| First Verse
I saw him toCday, I saw his face It was the face I Amloved, and I knew I had to run aCway And get down on my knees and pra-a-Amay, that they’d go away C Am And still they begin,------------needles and pins Because of all my Fpride, the tears I gotta Ghide
Second Verse
Oh I thought I was Csmart, I’d won his heart I didn't think I'd Amlose, but now I see She's worse to him than Cme, let her go ahead Take his love insAmtead, and one day he will see C Am Just how to say please------------and get down on his knees Oh that's how it beFgins, he'll feel those needle and pGins G G G G/F# E A-hurtin' him, A-hurtin' him
Bridge, then key change
EWhy can't I stop, and tell myself I'm Dwrong, I'm wrong, so wrong CWhy can't I stand up, and tell myself I'm Bstrong
n.C. E Because, I saw him today, I saw his face
It was the face I C#mloved, I can’t let go Although I Eknow he’ll make me cry Oh a wo-ah C#mwoh till the day I die But people EI got to live now And though I know that C#mI’ll just forgive now Yeah when it beAgins, he'll feel those needle and Bpins BA-hurtin' him, stop it now BStop those needles, Estop those pins Lord when they beC#mgin, oh won’t you hear what AI say Somebody take them aBway, stop ’em now, stop ‘em BStop those needles and Epins EOh when they beC#mgin I feel those needles and Apins A-Bhurtin’ me, hurtin’ me
BNeedles and Epins