Jackie Deshannon – Needles And Pins chords

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
            CI saw him today, I saw his face
                  AmIt was the face I loved, and I knew
              CI had to run away
                                   AmAnd get down on my knees and pra-a-ay, that they’d go away
                 C                           AmAnd still they begin,------------needles and pins
                  F                        GBecause of all my pride, the tears I gotta hide

Second Verse
                   COh I thought I was smart, I’d won his heart
                   AmI didn't think I'd lose, but now I see
                        CShe's worse to him than me, let her go ahead
                 AmTake his love instead, and one day he will see
                C                                     AmJust how to say please------------and get down on his knees
                   F                                  GOh that's how it begins, he'll feel those needle and pins
G                            G G G/F# E
A-hurtin' him, a-hurtin' him

Bridge, then key change

E                                     DWhy can't I stop, and tell myself I'm wrong, I'm wrong, so wrong
C                                         BWhy can't I stand up, and tell myself I'm strong

n.c.                 EBecause, I saw him today, I saw his face
                  C#mIt was the face I loved, I can’t let go
           EAlthough I know he’ll make me cry
           C#mOh a wo-ah woh till the day I die
           EBut people I got to live now
                       C#mAnd though I know that I’ll just forgive now
               A                                 BYeah when it begins, he'll feel those needle and pins
BA-hurtin' him, stop it now
B                   EStop those needles, stop those pins
                 C#m                           ALord when they begin, oh won’t you hear what I say
                    BSomebody take them away, stop ’em now, stop ‘em
B                      EStop those needles and pins
E              C#m                          AOh when they begin I feel those needles and pins
  BA-hurtin’ me, hurtin’ me

B           ENeedles and pins