10 Degrees And Getting Colder chords by Gordon Lightfoot

• Difficulty: Intermediate

Tuning: Standard (E A D G B E)

Key: E

Intro:

C F C F/C C



Verse:
C        F/C C
He was standing by the highway
C        F/C C
With a sign that just said 'Mother'
C     F/C  C
He heard a driver coming
    D7      G
About a half a mile away

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

Verse:
C        F/C C
He was raised up in Milwaukee
C     F/C  C
Though he never was that famous
C       F/C C
He was just a road musician
C   D7        G
To the taverns he would go

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

Instrumental:
C F/C C D7 F G7

Verse:
G    C
It was out in Arizona
C    F/C  C
That he heard the lady listening
C         F   C
To each word that he was singing
C    D7         G
To each line that he would write

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

Bridge:
C    Fmaj7       Am7
And she told him she would take him
C     F C
For a ride in the morning sun
C    Fmaj7          Am7
Back in Boulder he had told her
C       F
Don't know when
C           Am7/G C
I had a better friend

Verse:
G    C
Now he's traded off his Martin
C    F/C   C
But his troubles are not over
C        F/C  C
For his feet are almost frozen
D7           G
And the sun is sinking low

Verse:
C        F/C  C
Won't you listen to me brother
C       F/C  C
If you've ever loved your mother
F   C    F/C  C
Please pull off on the shoulder
D7            G
If you're going Milwaukee way

Outro:
C
It's ten degrees and getting colder
C    G7     C
Down by Boulder Dam today