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 - Sinner's Prayer
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO:
Am
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I want to be a better man
A sinner's prayer upon my lips
A broken promise in my hand
Dm
I know that there will come a day
Am
A heavy price I'll have to pay
Dm E
I keep pretending to be good
Am
But I'm not living like I should
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I've let the mystery slip away
The night goes by in dreamless sleep
I'm chasing foolish things all day
Dm
I walk this town just like a ghost
Am
I don't know what I miss the most
Dm E
I'd believe in something if I could
Am
I'm not living like I should
INSTRUMENTAL:
Am Dm Am Dm E Am
N.C. Am
When people see me on the street
They think they see an honest man
They don't know what lies beneath
But some of them would understand
Dm
They know the soul and what it hides
Am
You sometimes see it in their eyes
Dm E
A guilty man where a child once stood
Am
I'm not living like I should
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
The wolves howl and the robin sings
The world keeps spinning round and round
I wait for mercy's angel wings
Dm
Another day another year
Am
Death keeps whispering in my ear
Dm E
I say a prayer I knock on wood
Am
I'm not living like I should
INSTRUMENTAL:
Am Dm Am Dm E Am
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I used to be a better man
A sinner's prayer upon my lips
A broken promise in my hands
Dm
A squandered gift, a wasted day
Am
Time chases life away
Dm E
I just wanted to be good
Am
But I'm not living like I should
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I'm not living like I should
CAPO: 3rd Fret
INTRO:
Am
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I want to be a better man
A sinner's prayer upon my lips
A broken promise in my hand
Dm
I know that there will come a day
Am
A heavy price I'll have to pay
Dm E
I keep pretending to be good
Am
But I'm not living like I should
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I've let the mystery slip away
The night goes by in dreamless sleep
I'm chasing foolish things all day
Dm
I walk this town just like a ghost
Am
I don't know what I miss the most
Dm E
I'd believe in something if I could
Am
I'm not living like I should
INSTRUMENTAL:
Am Dm Am Dm E Am
N.C. Am
When people see me on the street
They think they see an honest man
They don't know what lies beneath
But some of them would understand
Dm
They know the soul and what it hides
Am
You sometimes see it in their eyes
Dm E
A guilty man where a child once stood
Am
I'm not living like I should
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
The wolves howl and the robin sings
The world keeps spinning round and round
I wait for mercy's angel wings
Dm
Another day another year
Am
Death keeps whispering in my ear
Dm E
I say a prayer I knock on wood
Am
I'm not living like I should
INSTRUMENTAL:
Am Dm Am Dm E Am
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I used to be a better man
A sinner's prayer upon my lips
A broken promise in my hands
Dm
A squandered gift, a wasted day
Am
Time chases life away
Dm E
I just wanted to be good
Am
But I'm not living like I should
N.C. Am
I'm not living like I should
I'm not living like I should
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