Lightfoot Gordon - 10 Degrees Getting Colder guitar tab

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Ten Degrees and Getting Colder

[GORDON LIGHTFOOT]

Transcribed from Nanci Griffith's

"Other Voices, Other Rooms" CD

Capo: 3rd Fret

[G]

He was standing by the highway

[C] [G]

With a sign that says just Mother

When he heard a driver coming

[Am] [D]

About a half a mile away

[G]

So he held the sign up higher

[C] [G]

So no decent soul could miss it

It was ten degrees or colder

[D] [G]

Down by Boulder Dam that day

[G]

He was raised up in Milwaukee

[C] [G]

Though he never was that famous

He was just a road musician

[Am] [D]

To the taverns he would go

[G]

Singing songs about the rambling

[C] [G]

The loving girls and gambling

How the world fell on his shoulder

[D] [G]

Back in Boulder, I don't know

CHORUS

[C] [G]

And she told him she would take him

[D] [G]

For a ride in the morning sun

[C] [G]

Back in Boulder he had told her

[D] [G]

I don't know when I've had a better friend

[G]

Well it was out in Arizona

[C] [G]

And he heard the lady listening

To each word that he was saying

[Am] [D]

To each line that he would write

[G]

So he sat down by her table

[C] [G]

And they talked about the weather

Ninety eight point six and rising

[D] [G]

Down by Boulder Dam that night

[G]

Now he's traded off his Martin

[C] [G]

But his troubles are not over

His feet are almost frozen

[Am] [D]

And the sun is sinking low

[G]

Won't you listen to me brother

[C] [G]

If you ever loved your mother

Please pull off on the shoulder

[D] [G]

If you're going Milwaukee way

It's ten degrees and getting colder

[D] [G]

Down by Boulder Dam today