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