Chords for Donovan (Needle of Death) 1965

[A] _ _ _ [C#] _ _ _ _ [A] _
[F#m] _ _ _ [A] _ [Am] And on that street there lived a boy who died of [G#m] heroin [A] poisoning.
_ [B] And this is a song written by [A] Bert Jansch.
It's [E] called The Needle of Death.
[A] _ _ _
_ [B] _ [F#] _ [A] When _ _ _ _ _ _ sadness fills [D] your heart
_ [F#m] And sorrow hides the longing [E] to be free
When [A] _ things go [D] wrong each day
[G#m] You [F#] fix your [F#m] mind to skip [E] your misery
_ [D] Your troubled young life [A] has made you turn
To _ _ _ _ the needle [D] of death
_ _ [A] _ [E] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [A]
How strange your [D] happy world
_ [A] [F#m] That seems to bring a smile [A] from [E] everyone
_ How [A]
tears that fill [D] the eyes
[G#] How [F#] friends [F#m] that once [E] have walked among
Your [D] troubled young life [A] has made you turn
To _ _ the needle [D] of death _ _
[E] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[A] One grain of pure _ [Bm] white snow
_ [A] _ [F#] [F#m] Dissolved in blood spreads quickly [E] to your brain
_ [A] And fills your mind [D] with _ drugs
[F#] Your [F#m] death and your soul can't [E] feel no pain
_ [D] Your troubled young [A] life has made you turn
_ _ To the needle of [D] _ death
[E] Your _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ mother stands [D] to cry you
_ [A#] [F#] While through [F#m] the earth your [A] body [E] slowly casts
_ _ [A] In peace your mind with [D]
drugs
_ [G#m] [F#] Caressing [F#m] every young [E] dream of the past
[D] Your troubled young [A] life has made you turn
To _ _ the needle [D]
of death
_ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [A] _ Through ages [D] man's desire
_ [G#m] To [F#m] free his mind to release [E] his very soul
[A] Have preferred [D] to live
_ [F#m] That death itself was [A] freedom [E]
forevermore
_ [D] Your troubled young life [A] has made you turn
To _ _ _ _ the needle _ [D] of death _ _
[E] _ _ _ [A] _ _ _ _ _