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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[E]
I met Willie by the still, he was brewin' a batch
[A]
He had a short cigar and one last match
[E] [B7]
He was tellin' me 'bout his latest trouble with the government
[E]
He had child support and alimony
[A]
He was looking depressed and kinda lonely
[E] [B7] [E]
Just tryin' to figure out where all his hard earned money went
Chorus:-i
[A]
"Well I'll be go to Hell," he said,
[E] [B7]
"I got nothing but a Ford and a barn full of hay
[A] [E]
If it weren't for horses and divorces
[B7] [E]
I'd be a lot better off today"
Well I said, "Willie, that sounds like a song"
He said, "Son you know you may not be all wrong
Could you give me a little piece of the pie if you make it a hit?
I got a '51 Ford I'd like to fix up
I got two sick ponies and one sick pup
And my third wife's coming today to take my TV set"
Chorus
"Yodeling"
Dobro Solo
Well God bless poor old Willie McCann
You know he's always been a good hard working man
He bought me a beer last night down at the Lost and Found
He said, "Horses and women are fine sure 'nuff
But if you don't treat 'em right things are gonna get rough
Believe me, I've got these four year marriages down"
Chorus
I met Willie by the still, he was brewin' a batch
[A]
He had a short cigar and one last match
[E] [B7]
He was tellin' me 'bout his latest trouble with the government
[E]
He had child support and alimony
[A]
He was looking depressed and kinda lonely
[E] [B7] [E]
Just tryin' to figure out where all his hard earned money went
Chorus:-i
[A]
"Well I'll be go to Hell," he said,
[E] [B7]
"I got nothing but a Ford and a barn full of hay
[A] [E]
If it weren't for horses and divorces
[B7] [E]
I'd be a lot better off today"
Well I said, "Willie, that sounds like a song"
He said, "Son you know you may not be all wrong
Could you give me a little piece of the pie if you make it a hit?
I got a '51 Ford I'd like to fix up
I got two sick ponies and one sick pup
And my third wife's coming today to take my TV set"
Chorus
"Yodeling"
Dobro Solo
Well God bless poor old Willie McCann
You know he's always been a good hard working man
He bought me a beer last night down at the Lost and Found
He said, "Horses and women are fine sure 'nuff
But if you don't treat 'em right things are gonna get rough
Believe me, I've got these four year marriages down"
Chorus
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