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 - Rust Belt Fields
## NOTE 1: D7sus2-Am-D7sus2-Am is a series of Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs ##
## on the A-string. Listen to the recording for the tempo. ##
## NOTE 2: ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: D7sus2-Am-D7sus2-Am D7sus2 D7sus2-Am-D7sus2-Am F C
This is my town
Am
Out in the rust belt fields
F
We were banging out Buicks
C
And Oldsmobiles
There was always a job
Am
And the money was there
F
Some say we got a little lazy
G
Nobody seemed to care
Am
But they figured it out
F
Sent the elbow grease
C
Down to Mexico
Am
And off to the Chinese
CHORUS:
F C ~ Am
And I learned a little something 'bout how things are
G Am-D7sus2-C-Cmaj9/B-Am
No one remembers your name just for working hard
C
Drove into the ground
Am
'Til your factory's cold
F
Then they tear it all down
C
And the parts get sold
Come the bankers now
Am
Picking over the bones
F
I got three more neighbours now
G
'Bout to lose their homes
Am
'Cause they figured it out
F
Sent the elbow grease
C
Down to Mexico
Am
And off to the Chinese
CHORUS:
F C ~ Am
And I learned a little something 'bout how things are
Dm G
No one gets a bonus for bloody knuckles and scars
Am
No one remembers your name just for working hard
INSTRUMENTAL: Dm G C Am
C
There's a casino boat
Am
It's up around Boon
F
Think I'll buy me a bottle
C
And a motel room
Put all I have left
Am
On a little black square
F
Risk it all like the big boys
G
Like I don't even care
Am
They'll drive you into the ground
F
'Til your engine's cold
C
Call in the auctioneer
Am
As the banks foreclose
CHORUS:
F C ~ Am
And I learned a little something 'bout how things are
Dm G
No one gets a bonus for bloody knuckles and scars
Am
No one remembers your name just for working hard
Slaid Cleaves - Rust Belt Fields
## NOTE 1: D7sus2-Am-D7sus2-Am is a series of Hammer-Ons and Pull-Offs ##
## on the A-string. Listen to the recording for the tempo. ##
## NOTE 2: ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
CAPO: 4th Fret
INTRO: D7sus2-Am-D7sus2-Am D7sus2 D7sus2-Am-D7sus2-Am F C
This is my town
Am
Out in the rust belt fields
F
We were banging out Buicks
C
And Oldsmobiles
There was always a job
Am
And the money was there
F
Some say we got a little lazy
G
Nobody seemed to care
Am
But they figured it out
F
Sent the elbow grease
C
Down to Mexico
Am
And off to the Chinese
CHORUS:
F C ~ Am
And I learned a little something 'bout how things are
G Am-D7sus2-C-Cmaj9/B-Am
No one remembers your name just for working hard
C
Drove into the ground
Am
'Til your factory's cold
F
Then they tear it all down
C
And the parts get sold
Come the bankers now
Am
Picking over the bones
F
I got three more neighbours now
G
'Bout to lose their homes
Am
'Cause they figured it out
F
Sent the elbow grease
C
Down to Mexico
Am
And off to the Chinese
CHORUS:
F C ~ Am
And I learned a little something 'bout how things are
Dm G
No one gets a bonus for bloody knuckles and scars
Am
No one remembers your name just for working hard
INSTRUMENTAL: Dm G C Am
C
There's a casino boat
Am
It's up around Boon
F
Think I'll buy me a bottle
C
And a motel room
Put all I have left
Am
On a little black square
F
Risk it all like the big boys
G
Like I don't even care
Am
They'll drive you into the ground
F
'Til your engine's cold
C
Call in the auctioneer
Am
As the banks foreclose
CHORUS:
F C ~ Am
And I learned a little something 'bout how things are
Dm G
No one gets a bonus for bloody knuckles and scars
Am
No one remembers your name just for working hard
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