Chords with lyrics
Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)
🎸 Intro: (whistling)
C majorC FF
A minorAm G+G
C majorC FF
A minorAm G+G
🎸 Verse 1:
C majorC FF
When sadness fills your heart
A minorAm G+G
And sorrow hides the longing to be free
C majorC FF
When things go wrong with each day
A minorAm G+G
You fix your mind to 'scape your misery
🎸 Chorus:
FF
Your troubled young life
C majorC
Had made you turn
C majorC FF G+G
To the needle of death
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC FF
How strange, your happy words
A minorAm G+G
Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone
C majorC FF
How tears have filled the eyes
A minorAm G+G
Of friends that you once walked among
🎸 Chorus:
FF
Your troubled young life
C majorC
Had made you turn
C majorC FF G+G
To the needle of death
🎸 Verse 2:
C majorC FF
One grain of pure white snow
A minorAm G+G
Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain
In peace your mind withdraws
A minorAm G+G
Your death so near your soul can't feel no pain
🎸 Chorus:
FF
Your troubled young life
C majorC
Had made you turn
C majorC FF G+G
To the needle of death
🎸 Verse 3:
C majorC FF
Your mother stands a'cryin'
A minorAm G+G
While to the earth your body's slowly cast
C majorC FF
Your father stands in silence
A minorAm G+G
Caressing every young dream of the past
🎸 Chorus:
FF
And your troubled young life
C majorC
Had made you turn
C majorC FF G+G
To the needle of death
🎸 Verse 4:
C majorC FF
Through ages, man's desires
A minorAm G+G
To free his mind, to releave his very soul
C majorC FF
Has proved to all who live
A minorAm G+G
That death itself is freedom for evermore
🎸 Chorus:
FF
And your troubled young life
C majorC
Had made you turn
C majorC FF G+G
To the needle of death
🎸 Outro:
FF
And your troubled young life
C majorC
Had made you turn
C majorC FF G+G
To the needle of death