Chords:
{t:Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede, The}
{artist: Matt McGinn }
{key: D}
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57b3OAsGw0s but in G
{c: }
Oh, [D] the Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede, [Em7] she was very sweet
[A7] She was ever so proud of every one of her hundred [D] feet
[D] Early every morning her [Em7] neighbours came to glance
[A7] She always entertained them with a beautiful little [D] dance
As [D] leg number ninety four gave [Em7] ninety five a shunt
[A7] Legs number one and two were twistin out in [D] front
[D] Legs numbers nine and ten came [Em7] wriggling up the side
[A7] Seventy three and seventy four were doing the Parlour [D] Glide
[D] Now her neighbour Jenny Longlegs with [Em7] jealousy was mad
[A7] She went out and bought herself a pencil and a [D] pad
[D] She came look one morning, she [Em7] made careful note
[A7] Of every step the centipede made and this is what she [D] wrote
Well [D] leg number ninety four gave [Em7] ninety five a shunt
[A7] Legs number one and two were twistin out in [D] front
[D] Legs numbers nine and ten came [Em7] wriggling up the side
[A7] Seventy three and seventy four were doing the Parlour [D] Glide
[D] Now with her exact notation young [Em7] Jenny Longlegs tried
[A7] To dance just like the centipede, she failed and nearly [D] cried
[D] She grabbed a hold of the centipede, and [Em7] said ‘Now, have a look
[A7] Show me how to do this dance I've written in my [D] book?
[D] The centipede said ‘Do I do that?’, and [Em7] tried to demonstrate
[A7] She'd never thought it out before, sand didn't do too [D] great
[D] Her hundred legs were twisted, and she [Em7] wound up in a tangle
[A7] She fractured fourteen kneecaps, seven shinbones, and an [D] ankle
[D] As legs number one and two were [Em7] tied with three and four
[A7] Legs number five and six were cancelled on the [D] floor
[D] Leg number seventeen was a-[Em7] ttacked by number ten
[A7] Ninety eight and ninety nine will never dance a-[D]gain
[D] Oh, the Wee Kirkcudbright Centipede, she [Em7] suffered terrible pain
[A7] And some of us were very surprised she ever danced a-[D] gain
[D] But now she tells her neighbours, any-[Em7] one that calls to see
[A7] Never try an explanation of what comes natural-[D]ly.
