“The Needle's Eye”

Description

"The needle's eye that doth supply The thread that runs so true, Oh many a beau have I let go Because I wanted you." The remaining verses describe how the singer(s) have courted and passed others by; the needle may have "caught" the (girl)

Supplemental text

Needle's Eye, The
  Complete text(s)

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Threading the Needle

From W. W. Newell, Games and Songs of American Children, item
#29, p. 91. From Massachusetts.

  The needle's eye
  That doth supply
The thread that runs so true;
  Ah! many a lass
  Have I let pass
Because I wanted you.

Recordings

• Margaret MacArthur, "The Needle's Eye" [fragment] (on MMacArthur01)

References

1. Randolph 545, "The Needle's Eye" (2 text plus an excerpt, 1 tune)
2. BrownIII 74, "The Needle's Eye" (1 fragment)
3. Hudson 144, pp. 291-293, "Needle's Eye" (2 fragments)
4. Linscott, pp. 43-44, "The Needle's Eye" (1 text, 1 tune)
5. ST R545 (Full)
6. Roud #4506
7. BI, R545