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Thread #5409   Message #30988
Posted By: Dan Calder
18-Jun-98 - 07:25 PM
Thread Name: Lyr/ChordsADD: Gordon Lightfoot songs
Subject: Lyr/Chords Add: TEN DEGREES AND GETTING COLDER
I hope this will help. Enjoy.

TEN DEGREES AND GETTING COLDER-Gordon Lightfoot

INTRO: D G A D
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He was standing by the highway
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With a sign that just said "mother"
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When he heard a driver coming
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About a half a mile away,

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So he held the sign up higher
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So no decent soul could miss it.
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It was ten degrees or colder
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Down by Boulder Dam that day.

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He was raised up in Milwaukee
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Though he never was that famous.
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He was just a road musician.
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To the taverns he would go,

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Singing songs about the rambling,
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The loving girls and gambling.
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How the world fell on his shoulder,
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Back in Boulder, I don't know.

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It was out in Arizona,
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And he heard the lady listening
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To each word that he was singing,
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To each line that he would write,

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So he sat down by her table
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And they talked about the weather:
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98.6 and rising
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Down by Boulder Dam that night.

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

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Now he's traded off his Martin,
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But his troubles are not over.
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His feet are almost frozen
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And the sun is sinking low.

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Won't you listen to me, brother?
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If you loved your mother,
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Please pull off on the shoulder
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If you're going Milwaukee way.

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