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 - You're A Mean One, Mr. Grinch
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a mean one Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You really are a heel
Am Dm
You're as cuddly as a cactus
G C B E
You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
Your heart's an empty hole
Am Dm
Your brain is full of spiders
G C B E
You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole
INSTRUMENTAL: Am Dm G C Am D E Am Dm G C B E
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
N.C. Am Dm G C
Your a vile one, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You've got termites in your smile
Am Dm
You've got all the tender sweetness
G C B E
Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You're the king of sinful sots
Am Dm
Your heart's a dead tomato
G C B E
Washed with mouldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch
N.C.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
Mangled up in tangled up knots
INSTRUMENTAL: Am Dm G C Am D E Am Dm G C B E
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
N.C. Am Dm G C
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
With a nauseous, super naus
Am Dm
You're a crooked jerky jockey
G C B E
And you drive a crooked horse, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
You're a 3-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You're a nasty, wasty skunk
Am Dm
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
G C B E
Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch
N.C.
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote:
E E E-Am
Stink, Stank, Stunk!
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a mean one Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You really are a heel
Am Dm
You're as cuddly as a cactus
G C B E
You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a monster, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
Your heart's an empty hole
Am Dm
Your brain is full of spiders
G C B E
You've got garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine and a half foot pole
INSTRUMENTAL: Am Dm G C Am D E Am Dm G C B E
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
N.C. Am Dm G C
Your a vile one, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You've got termites in your smile
Am Dm
You've got all the tender sweetness
G C B E
Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocodile
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You're the king of sinful sots
Am Dm
Your heart's a dead tomato
G C B E
Washed with mouldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch
N.C.
Your soul is an appalling dump heap
Overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
Mangled up in tangled up knots
INSTRUMENTAL: Am Dm G C Am D E Am Dm G C B E
Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
N.C. Am Dm G C
You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
With a nauseous, super naus
Am Dm
You're a crooked jerky jockey
G C B E
And you drive a crooked horse, Mr. Grinch
N.C. Am Dm Am Dm Am Dm E
You're a 3-decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce
N.C. Am Dm G C
You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch
Am D E
You're a nasty, wasty skunk
Am Dm
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
G C B E
Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch
N.C.
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote:
E E E-Am
Stink, Stank, Stunk!
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