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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

First Verse

I saw him today, I saw his face

It was the face I loved, and I knew

I had to run away

And get down on my knees and pra-a-ay, that they’d go away

And still they begin,------------needles and pins

Because of all my pride, the tears I gotta hide

Second Verse

Oh I thought I was smart, I’d won his heart

I didn't think I'd lose, but now I see

She's worse to him than me, let her go ahead

Take his love instead, and one day he will see

Just how to say please------------and get down on his knees

Oh that's how it begins, he'll feel those needle and pins

A-hurtin' him, A-hurtin' him

Bridge, then key change

Why can't I stop, and tell myself I'm wrong, I'm wrong, so wrong

Why can't I stand up, and tell myself I'm strong

n.C. E

Because, I saw him today, I saw his face

It was the face I loved, I can’t let go

Although I know he’ll make me cry

Oh a wo-ah woh till the day I die

But people I got to live now

And though I know that I’ll just forgive now

Yeah when it begins, he'll feel those needle and pins

A-hurtin' him, stop it now

Stop those needles, stop those pins

Lord when they begin, oh won’t you hear what I say

Somebody take them away, stop ’em now, stop ‘em

Stop those needles and pins

Oh when they begin I feel those needles and pins

A-hurtin’ me, hurtin’ me

Needles and pins