Lightfoot Gordon - Ten Degrees & Getting guitar tab

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

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

D

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

D

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

D

if you loved your mother

D

please pull off on the shoulder

A D

if you're going milwaukee way

D

it's ten degrees and getting colder

A D

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