Biography:
Slaid Cleaves (born Richard Slaid Cleaves on June 9, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter. He was born in Washington, D.C. and raised in South Berwick, Maine and Round Pond, Maine.
Slaid Cleaves’ music is marked by both the quirky blend of isolated eccentricity and steely resilience of his Yankee upbringing and the weathered soul of Texas, the state he has called home for over a decade now. First registering on the national folk scene by winning the Kerrville Folk Festival’s New Folk competition in 1992
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Other songs:
- Broken Down
- Drinkin' Days
- One Good Year
- Another Kind Of Blue
- Beautiful Thing
- Below
- Beyond Love
- Black T
- Borderline
- Breakfast In Hell
- Bring It On
- Broke Down
- Call It Sleep
- Cold And Lonely
- Cry
- Dance Around The Fire
- Dreams
- Drinkin Days
- Fairest Of Them All
- Flowered Dresses
- Getaway Car
- Go For The Gold
- Gods Own Yodeler
- Gone
- Green Mountains And Me
- Hard To Believe
- Hickory
- Hometown Usa
- Horses
- Horshoe Lounge
- I Bet She Does
- If I Had A Heart
- In The Rain
- Junkyard
- Key Chain
- Lydia
- Millionaire
- New Years Day
- No Angel Knows
- Not Going Down
- November Skies
- Oh Roberta
- Primer Gray
- Quick As Dreams
- Rust Belt Fields
- Sinners Prayer
- Song For June
- Still Fighting The War
- Temporary
- Texas Love Song
- This Morning I Was Born Again
- Tiger Tom Dixons Blues
- Tumbleweed Stew
- Twistin
- Voice Of Midnight
- Whim Of Iron
- Wishbone
- Without Her
- Working Stiff
- You Dont Have To Tell Me
- Youre A Mean One Mr Grinch
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Slaid Cleaves - Black T-Shirt
CAPO: 2nd Fret
G
In your black t-shirt, in the parking lot
Em C
In your drone boots out back smoking pot
G
Gotta black eye and you wear it proud
Em C G
Guns N' Roses way up loud
Just a little cut up on your brow
Em C
The principal said, "Don't come back now"
G
Every night it's a scream and shout
Em C
There's a new boyfriend and he wants you out
CHORUS:
D C
You know you're gonna to pay for the things you do
D C
You know what you put your mama through
INTERLUDE: G C G C
G
You hitchhike to work then you hitchhike back
Em C
Hope you're home before the sky goes black
G
Cars go by, but they don't stop
Em C
These days no one picks you up
CHORUS:
D C
You know you're gonna to pay for the things you do
D C
You know what you put your mama through
INSTRUMENTAL: G C G C G C G C
G
Over the bridge to the Texaco
Em C
There's a guy works there you used to know
G
He knows a dealer off the interstate
Em C
Now you got a plan and a .38
CHORUS:
D C
You know you're gonna to pay for the things you do
D C G
You know what you put your mama through____
INTERLUDE: G C G C
G
In your black t-shirt, in the parking lot
Em C
In your drone boots out back smoking pot
CAPO: 2nd Fret
G
In your black t-shirt, in the parking lot
Em C
In your drone boots out back smoking pot
G
Gotta black eye and you wear it proud
Em C G
Guns N' Roses way up loud
Just a little cut up on your brow
Em C
The principal said, "Don't come back now"
G
Every night it's a scream and shout
Em C
There's a new boyfriend and he wants you out
CHORUS:
D C
You know you're gonna to pay for the things you do
D C
You know what you put your mama through
INTERLUDE: G C G C
G
You hitchhike to work then you hitchhike back
Em C
Hope you're home before the sky goes black
G
Cars go by, but they don't stop
Em C
These days no one picks you up
CHORUS:
D C
You know you're gonna to pay for the things you do
D C
You know what you put your mama through
INSTRUMENTAL: G C G C G C G C
G
Over the bridge to the Texaco
Em C
There's a guy works there you used to know
G
He knows a dealer off the interstate
Em C
Now you got a plan and a .38
CHORUS:
D C
You know you're gonna to pay for the things you do
D C G
You know what you put your mama through____
INTERLUDE: G C G C
G
In your black t-shirt, in the parking lot
Em C
In your drone boots out back smoking pot
Slayer
Sleater-kinney
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Sleeping At Last
Sleeping With Si (...)