Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Face On The Cutting Room Floor(Chords)

Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Key: G

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Capo on 1st fret
	        
  
  
Intro:   G C D G C D G C D 
 
G               C            D          G 
She?s history.  No one would give her a star on the walk  
C            D          G                   C            D          Em 
She?d have a hundred if pillows could talk, where have I seen her before  
          C           D            G        C   D 
She?s the face on the cutting room floor 
        G        C        D             G 
It?s no mystery. Acted in school at the tenderest age 
C          D             G                 C       D           Em 
Lit up the room when she stepped on stage. Came to LA for some more  
          C           D            G 
She?s the face on the cutting room floor  

        D#                                              G 
She had visions of contracts and thousands of people in line, to see her 
D#                                            D                   D7 
Knocking on door after door after all of this time, now she?s not sure 

      G          C               D        G 
Up in Hollywood, stayed with an agent she met in a bar 
C               D             G 
Laughed when he told her he'd make her a star 
C             D            Em 
Where has she heard that before?  
          C           D            G 
She?s the face on the cutting room floor 


 Instrumental:     G C D G C D G C D 

D#                                            G 
One night he told her that she?d never get anywhere  in her clothes 
D#                                             D                D7 
That?s what it takes to play movieland musical chairs   now she knows 
        G          C          D           G 
Goodbye Hollywood  leaving tonight on the 2:30 hound 
C          D          G                            C              D       Em 
Sunrise on sunset she wont be around but they?ll replace her with so many more 
          C           D            G 
She?s the face on the cutting room floor 
            C           D            G 
Oh, she?s a face on the cutting room floor 
            C           D            G 
Poor little face on the cutting room floor 
       C           D            G 
(fade) Face on the cutting room floor
	        

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