Gordon Lightfoot – 10 Degrees And Getting Colder (Guitar)

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[INTRO:] C [VERSE 1:] He was standing by the highway With a sign that just said 'Mother'

                F      C
When he heard a driver coming

        D7           G
About a half a mile away

[VERSE 2:]

       C
And he held the sign up higher

So no decent soul could miss it It was ten degrees or colder

        G                C
Down by Boulder Dam that day

[VERSE 3:] He was raised up in Milwaukee Though he never was that famous

              F      C
He was just a road musician

       D7               G
To the taverns he would go

[VERSE 4:]

        C
Singing songs about the rambling

The loving girls and gambling How the world fell on his shoulders

        G               C
Back in Boulder I don't know

[INSTRUMENTAL:] C F Csus4 C F G7 [VERSE 5:]

       C
It was out in Arizona

That he heard the lady listening

                  F      C
To each word that he was singing

        D7                 G
To each line that he would write

[VERSE 6:]

      C
So he sat down by her table

And they talked about the weather 98.6 and rising

        G                C
Down by Boulder Dam that night

[BRIDGE:]

                F                    Csus4
And she told him she would take him

                  F
For a ride in the morning sun

                                 Csus4
Back in Boulder he had told her

                           F                G7
"I don't know when I had a better friend"

[VERSE 7:]

         C
Now he's traded off his Martin

But his troubles are not over

                 F      C
For his feet are almost frozen

        D7             G
And the sun is sinking low

[VERSE 8:]

          C
Won't you listen to me brother

If you've ever loved your mother

                F      C
Please pull off on the shoulder

          D7              G
If you're going Milwaukee way

[OUTRO:]

           C
It's ten degrees and getting colder

        G           C
Down by Boulder Dam today