Face On The Cutting Room Floor chords by Nitty Gritty Dirt Band

Face On The Cutting Room Floor      The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
Capo 1

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
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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
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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
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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