10 Degrees And Getting Colder chords by Gordon Lightfoot

Chords with lyrics

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E MajorE A augmentedA D MajorD G+G BB E MajorE)

Key: E MajorE

Intro:

C majorC FF C majorC F/CF/C C majorC


Verse:
C majorC        F/CF/C C majorC
He was standing by the highway
C majorC        F/CF/C C majorC
With a sign that just said 'Mother'
C majorC     F/CF/C  C majorC
He heard a driver coming
    D7D7      G+G
About a half a mile away

Verse:
G+G    C majorC    F/CF/C C majorC
And he held the sign up higher
C majorC      F/CF/C C majorC
So no decent soul could miss it
C majorC     F/CF/C    C majorC
It was ten degrees or colder
C majorC    G+G    C majorC      FF C majorC
Down by Boulder Dam that day

Verse:
C majorC        F/CF/C C majorC
He was raised up in Milwaukee
C majorC     F/CF/C  C majorC
Though he never was that famous
C majorC       F/CF/C C majorC
He was just a road musician
C majorC   D7D7        G+G
To the taverns he would go

Verse:
G+G    C majorC   F/CF/C  C majorC
Singing songs about the rambling
C majorC     F/CF/C  C majorC
The loving girls and gambling
C majorC       FF      C majorC
How the world fell on his shoulders
C majorC    G+G        C majorC
Back in Boulder I don't know

Instrumental:
C majorC F/CF/C C majorC D7D7 FF G7G7

Verse:
G+G    C majorC
It was out in Arizona
C majorC    F/CF/C  C majorC
That he heard the lady listening
C majorC         FF   C majorC
To each word that he was singing
C majorC    D7D7         G+G
To each line that he would write

Verse:
G+G   C majorC    F/CF/C C majorC
So he sat down by her table
C majorC    F/CF/C   C majorC
And they talked about the weather
C majorC   F/CF/C  C majorC
Ninety-eight point six and rising
C majorC    G+G        C majorC
Down by Boulder Dam that night

Bridge:
C majorC    Fmaj7Fmaj7       Am7Am7
And she told him she would take him
C majorC     FF C majorC
For a ride in the morning sun
C majorC    Fmaj7Fmaj7          Am7Am7
Back in Boulder he had told her
C majorC       FF
Don't know when
C majorC           Am7/GAm7/G C majorC
I had a better friend

Verse:
G+G    C majorC
Now he's traded off his Martin
C majorC    F/CF/C   C majorC
But his troubles are not over
C majorC        F/CF/C  C majorC
For his feet are almost frozen
D7D7           G+G
And the sun is sinking low

Verse:
C majorC        F/CF/C  C majorC
Won't you listen to me brother
C majorC       F/CF/C  C majorC
If you've ever loved your mother
FF   C majorC    F/CF/C  C majorC
Please pull off on the shoulder
D7D7            G+G
If you're going Milwaukee way

Outro:
C majorC
It's ten degrees and getting colder
C majorC    G7G7     C majorC
Down by Boulder Dam today