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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A] [D]
Day after day after trying to understand
[E] [D] [A]
Why the world tries to grind you down, make a ghost out of a man
[A] [D]
Your date of grace is due and you've pawned everything you own
[E] [D] [A]ss
I guess some dreams just don't come true, nothin' left but skin and wishbones ||
Each year the world gets lonelier and uglier with sin
You'll never see those blue skies through young eyes again
You've prayed to every god you've known just to wind up all alone
Your friends are gone, your mama's dead, nothin' left but skin and wishbones
Chorus:
[A] [D]
Spin the bottle cap, throw a shot back
[E] [A]
Everything's gonna be all right
[A] [D]
Spin the bottle cap, throw a shot back
[E] [A]
Cough and cry, Lay down and die
[E]
Grab an end, hold on tight
[G] [D]
Bottles and bones in the night
[G] [D]
You'll never go back home
[A]
You old wishbone
Guitar Solo
Fiddle Solo
Can't eat can't sleep can't think not knowing where to go
This is real life brother, this ain't no reality show
If suffering is human well I guess we're not alone
You'll survive on next to nothing but you won't live on skin and wishbones
Chorus
Repeat 2nd half of chorus
Day after day after trying to understand
[E] [D] [A]
Why the world tries to grind you down, make a ghost out of a man
[A] [D]
Your date of grace is due and you've pawned everything you own
[E] [D] [A]ss
I guess some dreams just don't come true, nothin' left but skin and wishbones ||
Each year the world gets lonelier and uglier with sin
You'll never see those blue skies through young eyes again
You've prayed to every god you've known just to wind up all alone
Your friends are gone, your mama's dead, nothin' left but skin and wishbones
Chorus:
[A] [D]
Spin the bottle cap, throw a shot back
[E] [A]
Everything's gonna be all right
[A] [D]
Spin the bottle cap, throw a shot back
[E] [A]
Cough and cry, Lay down and die
[E]
Grab an end, hold on tight
[G] [D]
Bottles and bones in the night
[G] [D]
You'll never go back home
[A]
You old wishbone
Guitar Solo
Fiddle Solo
Can't eat can't sleep can't think not knowing where to go
This is real life brother, this ain't no reality show
If suffering is human well I guess we're not alone
You'll survive on next to nothing but you won't live on skin and wishbones
Chorus
Repeat 2nd half of chorus
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Sleeping At Last
Sleeping With Si (...)