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The First Cut Is The Deepest (WORD)
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You can play in the same key as the videos, with a very minor change in count on the D at the end of the 2nd last verse for group play - we'll count it a whole 4 beats not half-time of 2. Thanks to Chris Hill for bringing this song to BUG!
Cat Stevens made a demo recording of "The First Cut Is the Deepest" in 1965, while hoping to become a songwriter. He wrote the song to promote his songs to other artists, but did not record his own performance until early October 1967 with guitarist Big Jim Sullivan, and it did not appear until his second album, New Masters, was released on 15 December 1967. The song has since been widely recorded and has become a hit single for six different artists: Arnold, Stevens, Keith Hampshire (1973), Rod Stewart (1977), Papa Dee (1995), and Sheryl Crow (2003). Keith Hampshire had the first chart-topping hit of the song when his recording of it from his album The First Cut became a number-one hit in Canada in 1973, reaching the top of the RPM 100 national singles chart on 12 May of that year.