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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[Verse]
Am C G Am
In the still of the desert, in the light of the moon,
Am C E
Armando walks all alone
Am C G Am
And the river ahead holds promise and dread
F E Am
And he's nine hundred miles from his home
Am C G Am
He pays the cyotes dodges la megra
Am C E
Walks for four hungry days
Am C G Am
When he finally hits Austin the boomtown is bustin
F E Am
But he takes what the contractor pays
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
When the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Verse]
Am C G Am
He wired the dollars to Elena back home
Am C E
As he roamed with ten desperate men
Am C G Am
When the builders had enough, the INS cuffed him,
F E Am
And it's back to the border again
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
When the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Verse]
Am C G Am
A tearful reunion with family and friends,
Am C E
But soon the reality sets in
Am C G Am
There's no work to be found in the dry desert ground
F E Am
He must head to estados again
(Mandolin Break)
[Verse]
Am C G Am
From Guadalajara came the man with no name
Am C E
He said "You can have all that you need."
Am C G Am
"There's no contract to sign but the terms are your life,
F E Am
If you take my money and seed"
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
when the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Verse]
Am C G Am
The payments were made, the seed it was sown,
Am C E
Armando watched the crop grow
Am C G Am
Even his brother in law in the army,
F E Am
Was in on the plan from the go
[Verse]
Am C G Am
7 months gone and the crops gathered in
Am C E
But the brother has a plan of his own
Am C G Am
He orders a raid, the army invades,
F E Am
And he takes what the village has grown
(Mandolin Break)
[Verse]
Am C G Am
In from the west came the man with no name
Am C E
He said "someone must pay with their life
Am C G Am
"We know your brother's, your father, your mother,
F E Am
Your children, your sister, your wife"
Am C G Am
"Now we can not touch your sisters young husband
Am C E
Tu Canoa is a military man
Am C G Am
But you can decide who lives and who dies"
F E Am
As he placed the gun in his hand
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
when the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Outro]
Am C G Am
In the still of the desert, in the light of the moon
Am C E
Armando walks all alone
Am C G Am
And the river ahead holds promise and dread
F E Am
And he's nine hundred miles from his home
Am C G Am
In the still of the desert, in the light of the moon,
Am C E
Armando walks all alone
Am C G Am
And the river ahead holds promise and dread
F E Am
And he's nine hundred miles from his home
Am C G Am
He pays the cyotes dodges la megra
Am C E
Walks for four hungry days
Am C G Am
When he finally hits Austin the boomtown is bustin
F E Am
But he takes what the contractor pays
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
When the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Verse]
Am C G Am
He wired the dollars to Elena back home
Am C E
As he roamed with ten desperate men
Am C G Am
When the builders had enough, the INS cuffed him,
F E Am
And it's back to the border again
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
When the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Verse]
Am C G Am
A tearful reunion with family and friends,
Am C E
But soon the reality sets in
Am C G Am
There's no work to be found in the dry desert ground
F E Am
He must head to estados again
(Mandolin Break)
[Verse]
Am C G Am
From Guadalajara came the man with no name
Am C E
He said "You can have all that you need."
Am C G Am
"There's no contract to sign but the terms are your life,
F E Am
If you take my money and seed"
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
when the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Verse]
Am C G Am
The payments were made, the seed it was sown,
Am C E
Armando watched the crop grow
Am C G Am
Even his brother in law in the army,
F E Am
Was in on the plan from the go
[Verse]
Am C G Am
7 months gone and the crops gathered in
Am C E
But the brother has a plan of his own
Am C G Am
He orders a raid, the army invades,
F E Am
And he takes what the village has grown
(Mandolin Break)
[Verse]
Am C G Am
In from the west came the man with no name
Am C E
He said "someone must pay with their life
Am C G Am
"We know your brother's, your father, your mother,
F E Am
Your children, your sister, your wife"
Am C G Am
"Now we can not touch your sisters young husband
Am C E
Tu Canoa is a military man
Am C G Am
But you can decide who lives and who dies"
F E Am
As he placed the gun in his hand
[Chorus]
C Am
When love for family is stronger than fear
C Am
when the desperation sets in
C Am
A man will cross any line that is drawn
Dm E
And who's to say it's a sin
Am C G Am
And he crossed himself at the borderline
[Outro]
Am C G Am
In the still of the desert, in the light of the moon
Am C E
Armando walks all alone
Am C G Am
And the river ahead holds promise and dread
F E Am
And he's nine hundred miles from his home
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