Gordon Lightfoot - 10 Degrees Getting Colder Lyrics

He was standin by the highway

With a sign that just said "mother"

When he heard a driver comin

bout a half a mile away

Then he held the sign up higher

Where no decent soul could miss it

It was ten degrees or colder

Down by bolder dam that day

He was raised up in milwaukee

Though he never was that famous

He was just a road musician

To the taverns he would go

Singin songs about the ramblin

The lovin girls and gamblin

How the world fell on his shoulders

Back in boulder I dont know



It was out in arizona

That he heard the lady listenin

To each word that he was sayin

To each line that he would write

So he sat down by her table and

They talked about the weather

Ninety-eight point six and risin

Down by boulder dam that day



And she told him she would take him

For a ride in the mornin sun

Back in boulder he had told her

"i dont know when I had a better friend"



Now hes traded off his martin

But his troubles are not over

For his feet are almost frozen

And the sun is sinkin low

Wont you listen to me brother

If you ever loved your mother

Please pull off on the shoulder

If youre goin milwaukee way

Its ten degrees and getting colder

Down by boulder dam today