Ten Degrees And Getting Colder Chords by Nanci Griffith

[Bb] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
[Eb] _ _ _ _ _ _ [Bb] _ _
_ _ He was standing by the highway with a sign that just said mother
When he heard a driver coming about a half a mile away
So he held the sign up higher or no decent so could miss it
It was 10 degrees or colder [F] down by Boulder damn that [Bb] day _ _
He was raised up in Milwaukee
Though he never was that famous he was just a road musician to [Cm] the taverns
He [F] would go [Bb] a singing songs about the rim
Are the loving girls and gambling how the world fell on his shoulders back in Boulder?
I don't know
_ And _ _ she told him
[Eb]
She would take him
[F] _ _ for
in [Bb] _ _ the morning sun
back in Boulder _
He [Eb] had told [F] her I don't know
_ _ [Eb] I've had a better friend
_ _ _ _ [F] _ _
_ _ [Bb] It was out in Arizona
That he heard the lady listening each word that he was saying [Cm] to each a line that he [F] would write
[Bb] So he sat down at her table and they talked about the weather
_ 98.6 and rising down by Boulder damn that night _ _ _
_ _ And she told him [Eb] she would take [F] him _ _
for
_ [Bb] in _ the morning sun
_ back in Boulder
_ [Eb] He had told [F] her I don't know
_ _ _ [Eb] I've had a better friend
_ _ [F] _ _
_ _ _ _ Now he's [Bb] traded off his Martin though his troubles aren't all
His feet are almost frozen and son is [F] singing
Hello, [Bb] I want you to listen to me brother.
Oh if you ever loved your mother
I want you pull up on shoulder if you go and Milwaukee way
It's 10 degrees and getting colder down by Boulder down today
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