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 - Hometown USA
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: C G F Dm7 C
N.C. C
It's closing time tonight in Harlan
G
Set the alarm, turn out the lights
F
Not a soul out on the sidewalk
C
As she steps into the night
Across the parking lot she fumbles
G
In her handbag for the keys
F
Another long day of “Thank you's"
G
"Yes, ma'am's” and “May I help you, please”
F
Sure didn't turn out like she planned
C
She thought she'd be a star by now
G
Dodging paparazzi cameras
C
But she's in Harlan still somehow
F
What happened to the leading lady
C
Living her life upon the stage
G F
Still only working as an extra
C
In a film called “Hometown, USA”
INTERLUDE: C G F Dm7 C
N.C. C
Now somewhere south of town on 40
G
A Greyhound bus rolls through the night
F
Staring out a greasy window
C
He keeps searching for the lights
No choice but head back home to Harlan
G
When foreclosure shut him down
F
And after all that he had worked for
G
Just to end up right back in your hometown
F
What happened to the “Ride 'em cowboy”
C
Living his life out on the range
G
He's just another hired hand now
C
In a film called “Hometown, USA”
INSTRUMENTAL: C F C G F C D
**Key Change - Up 2 Semitones**
N.C. D
Now they don't know their fate is turning
A
They're drifting closer in the dark
G
And as he steps in for a quick one
A
She's already at the bar
G
Tonight her lines will come so natural
D
And he'll tell tales of trails he rode
A
They'll fall in love beneath the neon
D
Tonight they're gonna steal the show
G
Sure didn't turn out like they planned
D
But they've found their own true way
A
It's not the big break that they dreamed of
Bm
But you know they're gonna be okay
A G
It's not a bad part after all now
D
In a film called “Hometown, USA”
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: C G F Dm7 C
N.C. C
It's closing time tonight in Harlan
G
Set the alarm, turn out the lights
F
Not a soul out on the sidewalk
C
As she steps into the night
Across the parking lot she fumbles
G
In her handbag for the keys
F
Another long day of “Thank you's"
G
"Yes, ma'am's” and “May I help you, please”
F
Sure didn't turn out like she planned
C
She thought she'd be a star by now
G
Dodging paparazzi cameras
C
But she's in Harlan still somehow
F
What happened to the leading lady
C
Living her life upon the stage
G F
Still only working as an extra
C
In a film called “Hometown, USA”
INTERLUDE: C G F Dm7 C
N.C. C
Now somewhere south of town on 40
G
A Greyhound bus rolls through the night
F
Staring out a greasy window
C
He keeps searching for the lights
No choice but head back home to Harlan
G
When foreclosure shut him down
F
And after all that he had worked for
G
Just to end up right back in your hometown
F
What happened to the “Ride 'em cowboy”
C
Living his life out on the range
G
He's just another hired hand now
C
In a film called “Hometown, USA”
INSTRUMENTAL: C F C G F C D
**Key Change - Up 2 Semitones**
N.C. D
Now they don't know their fate is turning
A
They're drifting closer in the dark
G
And as he steps in for a quick one
A
She's already at the bar
G
Tonight her lines will come so natural
D
And he'll tell tales of trails he rode
A
They'll fall in love beneath the neon
D
Tonight they're gonna steal the show
G
Sure didn't turn out like they planned
D
But they've found their own true way
A
It's not the big break that they dreamed of
Bm
But you know they're gonna be okay
A G
It's not a bad part after all now
D
In a film called “Hometown, USA”
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