Gordon Lightfoot – Ten Degrees And Getting (Ukulele)

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#----------------------------------PLEASE NOTE--------------------------------# #This file is the author's own work and represents their interpretation of the# #song. You may only use this file for private study, scholarship, or research.# #-----------------------------------------------------------------------------# 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." 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 [email protected]