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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PRIMER GRAY By Slaid Cleaves
[INTRO]
E
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[VERSE 1]
B E
Pulled the engine, with the block and chain
A E
Got the oil pump in, just before the rain
B E
In the gravel drive, it's a Pontiac
A B
On the weekend you'll find me at the track
[VERSE 2]
B E
It's a seventy-four, Dad bought it new
A E
Still mostly stock, and it's rusted through
B E
I only worry, 'bout what's underneath
A B
What she looks like don't mean a damn to me
[CHORUS]
A E
'Cause you don't need, that flash and shine
B E
You just need to be hard off the line
A C#m
So keep your lacquer, chrome and flames
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
[VERSE 3]
B E
Some men are rich, and they'll let you know
A E
Some guys act tough, it's all a show
B E
I know the things, men hold inside
A B
We're all about the same when you turn out the lights
[CHORUS]
A E
'Cause you don't need, that flash and shine
B E
You just need to be hard off the line
A C#m
So keep your lacquer, chrome and flames
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
[BRIDGE]
B E
Dad was pretty fast back in the day
B E
Bring that trophy home now, Mama used to say
A E
It'd sit there on the shelf gathering dust
B E
Luck turns to loss, and chrome to rust
[SOLO]
B E B E
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A E B E
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[VERSE 4]
B E
I've got that car, detailed and tuned
A E
My boy's sixteen, he'll be driving soon
B E
But he won't drive, that old seventy-four
A B
Kids today they all want something more
[FINAL CHORUS]
A E
'Cause you don't need, that flash and shine
B E
You just need to be hard off the line
A C#m
So keep your lacquer, chrome and flames
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
A C#m
It's what you do, not what you say
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
[INTRO]
E
//// //// //// ////
[VERSE 1]
B E
Pulled the engine, with the block and chain
A E
Got the oil pump in, just before the rain
B E
In the gravel drive, it's a Pontiac
A B
On the weekend you'll find me at the track
[VERSE 2]
B E
It's a seventy-four, Dad bought it new
A E
Still mostly stock, and it's rusted through
B E
I only worry, 'bout what's underneath
A B
What she looks like don't mean a damn to me
[CHORUS]
A E
'Cause you don't need, that flash and shine
B E
You just need to be hard off the line
A C#m
So keep your lacquer, chrome and flames
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
[VERSE 3]
B E
Some men are rich, and they'll let you know
A E
Some guys act tough, it's all a show
B E
I know the things, men hold inside
A B
We're all about the same when you turn out the lights
[CHORUS]
A E
'Cause you don't need, that flash and shine
B E
You just need to be hard off the line
A C#m
So keep your lacquer, chrome and flames
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
[BRIDGE]
B E
Dad was pretty fast back in the day
B E
Bring that trophy home now, Mama used to say
A E
It'd sit there on the shelf gathering dust
B E
Luck turns to loss, and chrome to rust
[SOLO]
B E B E
//// //// //// //// //// //// //// ////
A E B E
//// //// //// //// //// //// //// ////
[VERSE 4]
B E
I've got that car, detailed and tuned
A E
My boy's sixteen, he'll be driving soon
B E
But he won't drive, that old seventy-four
A B
Kids today they all want something more
[FINAL CHORUS]
A E
'Cause you don't need, that flash and shine
B E
You just need to be hard off the line
A C#m
So keep your lacquer, chrome and flames
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
A C#m
It's what you do, not what you say
B E
I'll paint mine primer gray
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