10 Degrees And Getting Colder Chords

CAPO: 4th Fret
Key: E 
 
[INTRO:] C
 
[VERSE 1:]
 
He was standing by the highway
 
With a sign that just said 'Mother'
                F      C
When he heard a driver coming
        D7           G
About a half a mile away
 
 
[VERSE 2:]
       C
And he held the sign up higher
 
So no decent soul could miss it
 
It was ten degrees or colder
        G                C
Down by Boulder Dam that day
 
 
[VERSE 3:]
 
He was raised up in Milwaukee
 
Though he never was that famous
              F      C
He was just a road musician
       D7               G
To the taverns he would go
 
 
[VERSE 4:]
        C
Singing songs about the rambling
 
The loving girls and gambling
 
How the world fell on his shoulders
        G               C
Back in Boulder I don't know
 
 
[INSTRUMENTAL:] 
C    F    Csus4    C  F    G7
 
 
[VERSE 5:]
       C
It was out in Arizona
 
That he heard the lady listening
                  F      C
To each word that he was singing
        D7                 G
To each line that he would write
 
 
[VERSE 6:]
      C
So he sat down by her table
 
And they talked about the weather
 
98.6 and rising
        G                C
Down by Boulder Dam that night
 
 
[BRIDGE:]
                F                  Csus4
And she told him she would take him
                  F
For a ride in the morning sun
                                 Csus4
Back in Boulder he had told her
                           F             G7
"I don't know when I had a better friend"
 
 
[VERSE 7:]
         C
Now he's traded off his Martin
 
But his troubles are not over
                 F      C
For his feet are almost frozen
        D7             G
And the sun is sinking low
 
 
[VERSE 8:]
          C
Won't you listen to me brother
 
If you've ever loved your mother
                F      C
Please pull off on the shoulder
          D7              G
If you're going Milwaukee way
 
 
[OUTRO:]
           C
It's ten degrees and getting colder
        G           C
Down by Boulder Dam today