Needle Of Death chords by Neil Young

• Difficulty: Beginner

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

🎸 Intro: (whistling)
C  F
Am G
C  F
Am G



🎸 Verse 1:
C             F
 When sadness fills your heart
Am                  G
 And sorrow hides the longing to be free
C                F
 When things go wrong with each day
Am                 G
 You fix your mind to 'scape your misery

🎸 Chorus:
   F
Your troubled young life
       C
Had made you turn
    C     F   G
To the needle of death

🎸 Verse 2:
C             F
 How strange, your happy words
Am                 G
 Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone
C              F
 How tears have filled the eyes
Am                G
 Of friends that you once walked among

🎸 Chorus:
   F
Your troubled young life
       C
Had made you turn
    C     F   G
To the needle of death

🎸 Verse 2:
C             F
 One grain of pure white snow
Am                     G
 Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain

In peace your mind withdraws
Am                      G
 Your death so near your soul can't feel no pain

🎸 Chorus:
   F
Your troubled young life
       C
Had made you turn
    C     F   G
To the needle of death

🎸 Verse 3:
C           F
 Your mother stands a'cryin'
Am                   G
 While to the earth your body's slowly cast
C            F
 Your father stands in silence
Am                  G
 Caressing every young dream of the past

🎸 Chorus:
   F
And your troubled young life
       C
Had made you turn
    C     F   G
To the needle of death

🎸 Verse 4:
C           F
 Through ages, man's desires
Am                   G
 To free his mind, to releave his very soul
C            F
 Has proved to all who live
Am                 G
 That death itself is freedom for evermore

🎸 Chorus:
   F
And your troubled young life
       C
Had made you turn
    C     F   G
To the needle of death

🎸 Outro:
   F
And your troubled young life
       C
Had made you turn
    C     F   G
To the needle of death