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 - Flowered Dresses
## NOTE: ~ = Bass Walk-Down from G to C ##
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: G C Em D
G C
She was leaning long legged 'neath the bottle cap sign
Em D
Of the country store, with a coke and a smile
G C
The coolest place to linger on an Arkansas day
Em D
When she saw him passing by
G C
He said, "I'll take you back to Texas, and my name is Ray"
Em D
"Where the stars are bigger than the Hit Parade"
G C
And she stopped dreaming her dream and started dreaming his
Em D
Traded in her childhood
CHORUS:
C D G
She wore flowered dresses for him
C D G
Rolled her hair and scrubbed her freckled skin
C D
On the chance that they were going out tonight
G ~ C
Catch a show, maybe grab a bite
D
And she looked real nice
G
She looked real nice
C
Sometimes I think about my daddy and his Old Spice grin
Em D
Clean, pressed shirt and a farmer's tan
G C
She never asked him questions and he never told her lies
Em D
But I heard my mama cry some
G C
And I was sitting in the hallway on the night he left
Em D
Hugging my knees, holding my breath
G C
I was never sure why, but he was damn sure gone
Em D
Thought it was maybe my fault
CHORUS:
C D G
She wore flowered dresses for him
C D G
Rolled her hair and scrubbed her freckled skin
C D
On the chance that they were going out tonight
G ~ C
Catch a show, maybe grab a bite
D
And she looked real nice
G
She looked real nice
INSTRUMENTAL: G C Em D G C Em D (2x)
G C
Now the evening is just starting to chill a bit
Em D
The fireflies over the field and it
G C
Brings to mind the glider where she used to sit
Em D
Count the headlights on the highway
G C
And I think of where you're going, where you are tonight
Em D
What you must have seen since I last saw those eyes
G C
I know I can't win if I do not play
Em D
This whole thing scares me
CHORUS:
C D G
She wore flowered dresses for him
C D G
Rolled her hair and scrubbed her freckled skin
C D
On the chance that they were going out tonight
G ~ C
Catch a show, maybe grab a bite
D
And she looked real nice
G
She looked real nice
C D
And she looked real nice
G C D G
She looked real nice
## NOTE: ~ = Bass Walk-Down from G to C ##
CAPO: 2nd Fret
INTRO: G C Em D
G C
She was leaning long legged 'neath the bottle cap sign
Em D
Of the country store, with a coke and a smile
G C
The coolest place to linger on an Arkansas day
Em D
When she saw him passing by
G C
He said, "I'll take you back to Texas, and my name is Ray"
Em D
"Where the stars are bigger than the Hit Parade"
G C
And she stopped dreaming her dream and started dreaming his
Em D
Traded in her childhood
CHORUS:
C D G
She wore flowered dresses for him
C D G
Rolled her hair and scrubbed her freckled skin
C D
On the chance that they were going out tonight
G ~ C
Catch a show, maybe grab a bite
D
And she looked real nice
G
She looked real nice
C
Sometimes I think about my daddy and his Old Spice grin
Em D
Clean, pressed shirt and a farmer's tan
G C
She never asked him questions and he never told her lies
Em D
But I heard my mama cry some
G C
And I was sitting in the hallway on the night he left
Em D
Hugging my knees, holding my breath
G C
I was never sure why, but he was damn sure gone
Em D
Thought it was maybe my fault
CHORUS:
C D G
She wore flowered dresses for him
C D G
Rolled her hair and scrubbed her freckled skin
C D
On the chance that they were going out tonight
G ~ C
Catch a show, maybe grab a bite
D
And she looked real nice
G
She looked real nice
INSTRUMENTAL: G C Em D G C Em D (2x)
G C
Now the evening is just starting to chill a bit
Em D
The fireflies over the field and it
G C
Brings to mind the glider where she used to sit
Em D
Count the headlights on the highway
G C
And I think of where you're going, where you are tonight
Em D
What you must have seen since I last saw those eyes
G C
I know I can't win if I do not play
Em D
This whole thing scares me
CHORUS:
C D G
She wore flowered dresses for him
C D G
Rolled her hair and scrubbed her freckled skin
C D
On the chance that they were going out tonight
G ~ C
Catch a show, maybe grab a bite
D
And she looked real nice
G
She looked real nice
C D
And she looked real nice
G C D G
She looked real nice
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