10 degrees getting colder

Gordon Lightfoot



 GORDON LIGBTFOOT
Transcribed from Nanci Griffith's
"Other Voices, Other Rooms" CD

Capo: 3rd Fret

 G
He was standing by the highway
 CG
With a sign that says just Mother

When he heard a driver coming
 AmD
About a half a mile away
 G
So he held the sign up higher
 CG
So no decent soul could miss it

It was ten degrees or colder
 DG
Down by Boulder Dam that day

 G
He was raised up in Milwaukee
 CG
Though he never was that famous

He was just a road musician
 AmD
To the taverns he would go
 G
Singing songs about the rambling
 CG
The loving girls and gambling

How the world fell on his shoulder
 DG
Back in Boulder, I don't know

 G
Well it was out in Arizona
 CG
And he heard the lady listening

To each word that he was saying
 AmD
To each line that he would write
 G
So he sat down by her table
 CG
And they talked about the weather

Ninety eight point six and rising
 DG
Down by Boulder Dam that night

BRIDGE
 CG
And she told him she would take him
 DG
For a ride in the morning sun
 CG
Back in Boulder he had told her
 DG
I don't know when I've had a better friend

 G
Now he's traded off his Martin
 CG
But his troubles are not over

His feet are almost frozen
 AmD
And the sun is sinking low
 G
Won't you listen to me brother
 CG
If you ever loved your mother

Please pull off on the shoulder
 DG
If you're going Milwaukee way

It's ten degrees and getting colder
 DG
Down by Boulder Dam today


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