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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DANCE AROUND THE FIRE
by Slaid Cleaves / Mark Farrington . . . Happy Valley Music, BMI
from the CD No Angel Knows
Capo 2
[Intro] x2
[D] - ([G]walk [F]down) - [Em]
D
Bill’s been thinking a lot these days
G F Em
About the way things used to be
D
He’s never been the kind of man
G F Em D
To put much faith in destiny
D
Sometimes he feels the warmth
G F Em
Of a fire from long ago
D G
Sometimes he steps into the night
F Em D
And all he feels is the winter cold
C G D C
Everybody dance around the fire tonight
C G D
You don’t have to wait ’till it’s your turn
C G D C
Everybody dance a little closer to the flame tonight
G
But don’t get burned
D
Pray that you don’t get burned
D
They met in high school
G F Em
And they never had a doubt
D
There’d be some hard times
G F Em D
But old Bill would find a way to work things out
Katie had a way about her
G F Em
That made old Bill believe
D
A small farm and three kids later
G F Em D
It looked just like the perfect family
C G D C
But one day Bill found out what he should’ve known all along:
G
Things fall apart sometimes
D C D
One minute something’s there and then it’s gone
D
With the kids in bed that night
G F Em
Katie gently shut the door
D
She turned to Bill and said
G F Em D
I’m sorry but I don’t love you anymore
D
And now he spends his days
G F Em
Just like he’s always done
D
You’d never guess the sorrow
G F Em D
That he’s hid so well from everyone
D
The house is empty now
G F Em
The kids grown up and gone
D
And Bill slips into bed at night
G F Em D
With Katie right by his side and they hold on
C G D C
Everybody dance around the fire tonight
C G D
You don’t have to wait ’till it’s your turn
C G D C
Everybody dance a little closer to the flame tonight
G
But don’t get burned
D
Pray that you don’t get burned
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by Slaid Cleaves / Mark Farrington . . . Happy Valley Music, BMI
from the CD No Angel Knows
Capo 2
[Intro] x2
[D] - ([G]walk [F]down) - [Em]
D
Bill’s been thinking a lot these days
G F Em
About the way things used to be
D
He’s never been the kind of man
G F Em D
To put much faith in destiny
D
Sometimes he feels the warmth
G F Em
Of a fire from long ago
D G
Sometimes he steps into the night
F Em D
And all he feels is the winter cold
C G D C
Everybody dance around the fire tonight
C G D
You don’t have to wait ’till it’s your turn
C G D C
Everybody dance a little closer to the flame tonight
G
But don’t get burned
D
Pray that you don’t get burned
D
They met in high school
G F Em
And they never had a doubt
D
There’d be some hard times
G F Em D
But old Bill would find a way to work things out
Katie had a way about her
G F Em
That made old Bill believe
D
A small farm and three kids later
G F Em D
It looked just like the perfect family
C G D C
But one day Bill found out what he should’ve known all along:
G
Things fall apart sometimes
D C D
One minute something’s there and then it’s gone
D
With the kids in bed that night
G F Em
Katie gently shut the door
D
She turned to Bill and said
G F Em D
I’m sorry but I don’t love you anymore
D
And now he spends his days
G F Em
Just like he’s always done
D
You’d never guess the sorrow
G F Em D
That he’s hid so well from everyone
D
The house is empty now
G F Em
The kids grown up and gone
D
And Bill slips into bed at night
G F Em D
With Katie right by his side and they hold on
C G D C
Everybody dance around the fire tonight
C G D
You don’t have to wait ’till it’s your turn
C G D C
Everybody dance a little closer to the flame tonight
G
But don’t get burned
D
Pray that you don’t get burned
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