Cut Across Shorty chords by Fairport Convention
Verse 1
G
It was a crunchy boy named Shorty
C
And a city boy named Dan
G
To see who could run the fastest
A
D
Just a quickness was his hand
G
Not that Dan had all of the money
C
But he also had good looks
G
But Shorty must have had something,
D
G
but it can't be found in books
C
Won't you cut across, Shorty,
Shorty, cut across
G
That's what Miss Lucy said
C
Cut across, Shorty, Shorty, cut across
D
G
D
G
Well, it's here I wanna win
I'm a man with his longest fight
C
G
He left Shorty far behind
C
G
A
Shorty could hear him hollering, Miss Lucy,
D
I wonder if that's only mine
G
Shorty wasn't worrying,
C
he got a smile on his face
G
He knew that he was finally waiting
D
G
for Miss Lucy to fix the braces
C
Won't you cut across, Shorty,
shorty, cut across
G
That's what Miss Lucy said
C
Cut across, Shorty, shorty, cut across
D
G
C
As you are blowing
G
A
D
C
G
C
G
C
Dm
C
G
C
Cut across, shorty, shorty, cut across
G
That's what this bluesy say
C
Cut across, shorty, shorty, cut across
D
G
C
G
Yes, you are on our way
Counting and pinning, training
C
It was weeks before the race
G
He was short a little shorty
A
Was gonna end up in second place
D
G
But just like that story
C
about the tortoise and the hare
G
When Dan went across the finish line
D
F
G
Where he found a little shoddy there
C
Watch him cut across, shoddy,
shoddy, cut across
G
That's what Miss Lucy said
C
Cut across, shoddy, shoddy, cut across
D
It's you I'm gonna win
G
C
Watch him cut across, shoddy,
shoddy, cut across
G
But Miss Lucy said,
C
Won't you cut a fly shorty, shorty, cut a fly
D
G
Is it you I wanna wed?
C
Cut a fly shorty, shorty, cut a fly
G
But Miss Lucy said,
C
Cut a fly shorty, shorty, cut a fly
D
G
Is it you I wanna wed?
C
Cut a fly shorty, shorty, cut a fly
G
But Miss Lucy said,
C
Cut a fly shorty, shorty, cut a fly
D
G
Is your heart on?
Roger Hill and Tom Farnell
join from the centre of music's universe,
Birmingham. Birmingham!
American guitarist David Ray
pops over for a week or two.
The Rosie album is made
but the lads don't much like it
and Trevor Lucas is brought in
to produce a new version.
Now Trevor had come over
from Australia
some years previously
and had made something
of a name for himself
singing Aussie folk songs.
He then formed Fatheringay with Sandy
and it was fellow Fatheringay musicians
Jerry Donoghue on guitar
and Jerry Conway on the drums
who helped out on the Rosie album.
DM also played along.
Trevor, Jerry D,
DM decided to join up with Peggy
and swarm
to form the new Fairport
and off they went gigging extensively.
This lineup stays together
and records the very fine album Nine.
So let's bring them on.
G
You met most of them already
but here for the first time
is a man whose digits are so fast
they can type out the Bible
in 14 seconds flat.
This guitarist makes Albert Lee
and Eddie Van Halen
sound like Sammy the Snail
and Cyril the Slug.
How can you keep so cool
when you're peddling up Everest
at 150 miles per hour?
This man does all this,
the token American in our show,
Jerry Donoghue!
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