Cut Across Shorty Chords

Lyrics & chords

[Verse 1]
[G]It was a crunchy boy named Shorty
And a [C]city boy named Dan
To [G]see who could run the fastest
Just a [A]quickness was his [D]hand
[G]Not that Dan had all of the money
But he [C]also had good looks
But [G]Shorty must have had something,
but it [D]can't be found in book[G]s
Won't you cut [C]across, Shorty,
Shorty, cut across
That's what [G]Miss Lucy said
Cut across, [C]Shorty, Shorty, cut across
Well, [D]it's here I wanna [G]win[D][G]
I'm a man with his longest fight
He left [C]Shorty [G]far behind
[C]Sho[G]rty could hear him hollering, Miss Luc[A]y,
I wonder if that's only [D]mine
[G]Shorty wasn't worrying,
he got a [C]smile on his face
He [G]knew that he was finally waiting
for Miss [D]Lucy to fix [G]the braces
Won't you cut [C]across, Shorty,
shorty, cut across
That's [G]what Miss Lucy said
Cut across, [C]Shorty, shorty, cut across
As [D]you are [G]blowing[C]
[G]
[A][D][C]
[G][C]
[G][C][Dm][C]
[G]Cut acr[C]oss, shorty, shorty, cut across
That's [G]what this bluesy say
Cut across, [C]shorty, shorty, cut across
Yes, [D]you are on [G]our [C]way[G]
Counting and pinning, training
It was [C]weeks before the race
He was [G]short a little shorty
Was gonna en[A]d up in second place
[D]But[G] just like that story
about the [C]tortoise and the hare
When [G]Dan went across the finish line
Where he [D]found a little [F]shoddy [G]there
Watch him cut across, [C]shoddy,
shoddy, cut across
That's [G]what Miss Lucy said
Cut across, [C]shoddy, shoddy, cut across
It's [D]you I'm gonna win
[G]Watch him cut [C]across, shoddy,
shoddy, cut across
[G]But Miss Lucy said,
Won't you cut a fly [C]shorty, shorty, cut a fly
Is it [D]you I wanna [G]wed?
Cut a fly [C]shorty, shorty, cut a fly
But Miss [G]Lucy said,
Cut a fly [C]shorty, shorty, cut a fly
Is it [D]you I wanna [G]wed?
Cut a fly [C]shorty, shorty, cut a fly
But [G]Miss Lucy said,
Cut a fly [C]shorty, shorty, cut a fly
Is [D]your heart [G]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.
You met most [G]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!