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 - Beautiful Thing
## NOTE: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
CAPO: 7th Fret
INTRO: C
~ ~
Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
Am
Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores
F C
Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings
~ ~
You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it
Am
Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
~ ~
We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
Am
While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
F C
The press sings another chorus, “Let Freedom Ring”
~ ~
We send our boys away to come home in parts
Am
Believe the lies with all our hearts
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
BRIDGE:
F C
Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing
F G
Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings
C ~ ~
Today we sing the gilded age's song
Am
The 20th century's dead and gone
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
INSTRUMENTAL: C Am F C Am Dm7 F C
~ ~
I live in a land of hope and betrayal
Am
I get up each morning and try to tell the tale
F C
And so, until my dying day, whatever fate may bring
~ ~
A dark age looms, there's evil at hand
Am
Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
## NOTE: ~ ~ = Walk-Down from C to Am ##
CAPO: 7th Fret
INTRO: C
~ ~
Surrogates and shadowy henchmen galore
Am
Party hacks and swift-boating talk-show whores
F C
Look at all the lies it takes, the job of making kings
~ ~
You can own the truth, you just gotta conceive it
Am
Put it on the television screens, they'll believe it
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
~ ~
We wonder how our leaders could ever deceive us
Am
While the profiteers count their cash and praise Jesus
F C
The press sings another chorus, “Let Freedom Ring”
~ ~
We send our boys away to come home in parts
Am
Believe the lies with all our hearts
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
BRIDGE:
F C
Dissension is a song only fools and traitors sing
F G
Just look at all the benefits that global economy brings
C ~ ~
Today we sing the gilded age's song
Am
The 20th century's dead and gone
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
INSTRUMENTAL: C Am F C Am Dm7 F C
~ ~
I live in a land of hope and betrayal
Am
I get up each morning and try to tell the tale
F C
And so, until my dying day, whatever fate may bring
~ ~
A dark age looms, there's evil at hand
Am
Somehow I still believe in the goodness of man
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
Dm7 F
It's a beautiful thing
C
It's a beautiful thing
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