Face On The Cutting Room Floor The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band
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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
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She’s the face on the cutting room floor
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It’s no mystery. Acted in school at the tenderest age
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Lit up the room when she stepped on stage. Came to LA for some more
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She’s the face on the cutting room floor
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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
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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?
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She’s the face on the cutting room floor
Instrumental: G C D G C D G C D
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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
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Goodbye Hollywood leaving tonight on the 2:30 hound
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Sunrise on sunset she wont be around but they’ll replace her with so many more
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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
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(fade) Face on the cutting room floor