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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*****DO NOT ADD STRUMMING PATTERNS TO MY TABS*****
Slaid Cleaves - Breakfast In Hell
CAPO: 2nd Fret
## NOTE: ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
INTRO: Am C G C ~ Am
C
In the melting snows of Ontario
G Am
Where the wind'll make you shiver
C
'Twas the month of May up in Georgian Bay
G Am
Near the mouth of the Musquash River
C G
Where the bears prowl and the coyotes howl
C ~ Am
And you can hear the osprey scream
G
Back in 'Ninety-Nine we were cutting pine
C ~ Am
And sending it down the stream
C
Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay
G Am
All the way from P.E.I.
C
Where the weather's rough and it makes you tough
G Am
No man's afraid to die
C G
Sandy came a-smiling, Thirty Thousand Islands
C ~ Am
Was the place to claim his glory
G
Now Sandy's gone, but his name lives on
C ~ Am
This is Sandy's story
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
Young Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
G
Listen close and you'll hear a ghost
C ~ Am
In this story that I tell, boys
C ~ Am
This story that I tell
C
Now Sandy Gray was boss of the men who tossed
G Am
The trees onto the shore
C
They'd come and go 'til they'd built a floe
G Am
A hundred thousand logs or more
C G
Then he'd ride 'em down toward Severn Sound
C ~ Am
To cut 'em up in the mills for timber
G
And ships would haul, spring, summer and fall
C ~ Am
'Til the ice came in December
C
One Sabbath day, big Sandy Gray
G Am
Came into camp with a peavey on his shoulder
C
With a thunder crack he dropped his axe
G Am
And the room got a little bit colder
C G
Said, “Come on all you, we got work to do
C ~ Am
We gotta give her all we can give her”
G
“There's a jam of logs at the Little Jog
C ~ Am
Near the mouth of the Musquash River”
C
With no time to pray on the lord's day
G Am
They were hoping for god's forgiveness
C
But the jam was high in a troubled sky
G Am
And they set out about their business
C G
They poked with their poles and ran with the rolls
C ~ Am
And tried to stay on their feet
G
Every trick they tried and one man cried
C ~ Am
“This log jam's got us beat!”
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am C
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
~ Am
“Breakfast in Hell!”
INSTRUMENTAL:
Am C G Am C G Am C G C ~ Am G C ~ Am C ~ Am
C
Now every one of the men did the work of ten
G Am
And Sandy scrambled up to the top
C
He's working like a dog, heaving thirty foot logs
G Am
And it looked like he'd never stop
C G
And they struggled on, these men so strong
C ~ Am
'Til the jam began to sway
G
Then they dove for cover to the banks of the river
C ~ Am
All except for Sandy Gray
C
Now with thoughts of death, they held their breath
G Am
As they saw their friend go down
C
They all knew, in a second or two
G Am
He'd be crushed or frozen or drowned
C G
Then they saw him fall, they heard him call
C ~ Am
Just once, then it was over
G
Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day
C ~ Am
Near the mouth of the Musquash River
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am C
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
~ Am C G C ~ Am
“Breakfast in Hell!”
C
East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty of room
G Am
There's no fences and no walls
C
And if you listen close, you'll hear a ghost
G Am
Down by Sandy Gray Falls
C G
Through the tops of the trees, you'll hear in the breeze
C ~ Am
The echoes of a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am
Or it's breakfast in Hell!”
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
And Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am C
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
~ Am
“Breakfast in Hell!”
OUTRO:
C G Am G Am G Am
Slaid Cleaves - Breakfast In Hell
CAPO: 2nd Fret
## NOTE: ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
INTRO: Am C G C ~ Am
C
In the melting snows of Ontario
G Am
Where the wind'll make you shiver
C
'Twas the month of May up in Georgian Bay
G Am
Near the mouth of the Musquash River
C G
Where the bears prowl and the coyotes howl
C ~ Am
And you can hear the osprey scream
G
Back in 'Ninety-Nine we were cutting pine
C ~ Am
And sending it down the stream
C
Young Sandy Gray came to Go Home Bay
G Am
All the way from P.E.I.
C
Where the weather's rough and it makes you tough
G Am
No man's afraid to die
C G
Sandy came a-smiling, Thirty Thousand Islands
C ~ Am
Was the place to claim his glory
G
Now Sandy's gone, but his name lives on
C ~ Am
This is Sandy's story
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
Young Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
G
Listen close and you'll hear a ghost
C ~ Am
In this story that I tell, boys
C ~ Am
This story that I tell
C
Now Sandy Gray was boss of the men who tossed
G Am
The trees onto the shore
C
They'd come and go 'til they'd built a floe
G Am
A hundred thousand logs or more
C G
Then he'd ride 'em down toward Severn Sound
C ~ Am
To cut 'em up in the mills for timber
G
And ships would haul, spring, summer and fall
C ~ Am
'Til the ice came in December
C
One Sabbath day, big Sandy Gray
G Am
Came into camp with a peavey on his shoulder
C
With a thunder crack he dropped his axe
G Am
And the room got a little bit colder
C G
Said, “Come on all you, we got work to do
C ~ Am
We gotta give her all we can give her”
G
“There's a jam of logs at the Little Jog
C ~ Am
Near the mouth of the Musquash River”
C
With no time to pray on the lord's day
G Am
They were hoping for god's forgiveness
C
But the jam was high in a troubled sky
G Am
And they set out about their business
C G
They poked with their poles and ran with the rolls
C ~ Am
And tried to stay on their feet
G
Every trick they tried and one man cried
C ~ Am
“This log jam's got us beat!”
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am C
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
~ Am
“Breakfast in Hell!”
INSTRUMENTAL:
Am C G Am C G Am C G C ~ Am G C ~ Am C ~ Am
C
Now every one of the men did the work of ten
G Am
And Sandy scrambled up to the top
C
He's working like a dog, heaving thirty foot logs
G Am
And it looked like he'd never stop
C G
And they struggled on, these men so strong
C ~ Am
'Til the jam began to sway
G
Then they dove for cover to the banks of the river
C ~ Am
All except for Sandy Gray
C
Now with thoughts of death, they held their breath
G Am
As they saw their friend go down
C
They all knew, in a second or two
G Am
He'd be crushed or frozen or drowned
C G
Then they saw him fall, they heard him call
C ~ Am
Just once, then it was over
G
Young Sandy Gray gave his life that day
C ~ Am
Near the mouth of the Musquash River
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
But Sandy Gray was not afraid and he let out a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am C
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
~ Am C G C ~ Am
“Breakfast in Hell!”
C
East of Giant's Tomb there's plenty of room
G Am
There's no fences and no walls
C
And if you listen close, you'll hear a ghost
G Am
Down by Sandy Gray Falls
C G
Through the tops of the trees, you'll hear in the breeze
C ~ Am
The echoes of a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am
Or it's breakfast in Hell!”
CHORUS:
C Am C Am
And Sandy Gray lives on today in the echoes of a mighty yell
G
“I'll be damned, we'll break this jam
C ~ Am C
Or it's breakfast in Hell, boys”
~ Am
“Breakfast in Hell!”
OUTRO:
C G Am G Am G Am
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