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Dan Calder Lyr/ChordsADD: Gordon Lightfoot songs (6) Lyr/Chords Add: TEN DEGREES AND GETTING COLDER 18 Jun 98


I hope this will help. Enjoy.

TEN DEGREES AND GETTING COLDER-Gordon Lightfoot

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

D
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
A D
If you're going Milwaukee way.

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


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