Ten Degrees and Getting Colder-Gordon Lightfoot
Originally done by Gordon Lightfoot, on "Summer Side of Life"--1971.
Also recorded by bluegrass musicians "JD Crowe and the New South."
Also--Tony Rice's "Tony Rice Sings and Plays Gordon Lightfoot."
Also--Nanci Griffith's "Other Voices, Other Rooms."
This version transcribed from the JD Crowe version, capo on 3rd fret.
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
One of these days I'll get around to tabbing the intro.
Questions or comments:
Daniel Albright
DTA0817@MAIL.ECU.EDU
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