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