Needles And Pins chords by Deshannon Jackie

Chords with lyrics

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
      C majorC
I saw him today, I saw his face
         A minorAm
It was the face I loved, and I knew
       C majorC
I had to run away
                  A minorAm
And get down on my knees and pra-a-ay, that they’d go away
         C majorC              A minorAm
And still they begin,------------needles and pins
         FF            G+G
Because of all my pride, the tears I gotta hide

Second Verse
          C majorC
Oh I thought I was smart, I’d won his heart
          A minorAm
I didn't think I'd lose, but now I see
            C majorC
She's worse to him than me, let her go ahead
         A minorAm
Take his love instead, and one day he will see
        C majorC                   A minorAm
Just how to say please------------and get down on his knees
          FF                 G+G
Oh that's how it begins, he'll feel those needle and pins
G+G              G+G G MajorG G/F# E MajorE
A-hurtin' him, A-hurtin' him

Bridge, then key change

E MajorE                   D MajorD
Why can't I stop, and tell myself I'm wrong, I'm wrong, so wrong
C majorC                     BB
Why can't I stand up, and tell myself I'm strong

n.C.         E MajorE
Because, I saw him today, I saw his face
         C# minorC#m
It was the face I loved, I can’t let go
      E MajorE
Although I know he’ll make me cry
      C# minorC#m
Oh a wo-ah woh till the day I die
      E MajorE
But people I got to live now
            C# minorC#m
And though I know that I’ll just forgive now
        A augmentedA                 BB
Yeah when it begins, he'll feel those needle and pins
BB
A-hurtin' him, stop it now
BB          E MajorE
Stop those needles, stop those pins
         C# minorC#m              A augmentedA
Lord when they begin, oh won’t you hear what I say
          BB
Somebody take them away, stop ’em now, stop ‘em
BB           E MajorE
Stop those needles and pins
E MajorE       C# minorC#m             A augmentedA
Oh when they begin I feel those needles and pins
 BB
A-hurtin’ me, hurtin’ me

BB      E MajorE