Bert Jansch – Needle Of Death (Guitar)

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Versions (2)

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Chords

[Verse 1]
C              C5           F
  When sadness fills your heart

Am                                   G   G7
  And sorrow hides the longing to be free

C                C5                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

C5         C2   G7sus2 G7
To the needle of death
[Verse 2]
C                    C5     F
  How strange, your happy words

Am                                       G   G7
  Have ceased to bring a smile from everyone

C                 C5          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

C5         C2   G7sus2 G7
To the needle of death
[Verse 2]
C              C5           F
  One grain of pure white snow

Am                                          G   G7
  Dissolved in blood spread quickly to your brain

C              C5         F
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

C5         C2   G7sus2 G7
To the needle of death
[Verse 3]
C             C5         F
  Your mother stands a'cryin'

Am                                      G   G7
  While to the earth your body's slowly cast

C             C5         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

C5         C2   G7sus2 G7
To the needle of death
[Verse 4]
C               C5      F
  Through ages, man's desires

Am                                      G   G7
  To free his mind, to releave his very soul

C                C5       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

C5         C2   G7sus2 G7
To the needle of death
[Outro]
     F
And your troubled young life

             C
Had made you turn

C5         C2   G7sus2 G7
To the needle of death