(Gordon Lightfoot)
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He was standing by the highway
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With a sign that just said Mother
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When he heard a driver coming
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About a half a mile away
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So he held the sign up higher
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Where no decent soul could miss it
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It was ten degrees or colder
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Down by Boulder Dam that day
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He was raised up in Milwaukee
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Though he never was that famous
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He was just a road musician
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To the taverns he would go
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Singing songs about the ramblin'
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The lovin' girls and gamblin'
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How the world fell on his shoulders
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Back in Boulder I don't know
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[Chorus:]
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And she told him she would take him
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For a ride in the morning sun
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Back in Boulder he had told her
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I don't know when, I've had a better friend
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It was out in Arizona
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That he heard the lady listening
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To each word that he was saying
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To each line that he would write
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So he sat down at her table
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And they talked about the weather
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98.6 and rising down by Boulder Dam that night
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[Chorus]
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Now he's traded off his Martin
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Though his troubles aren't all over
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His feet are almost frozen and the sun is sinking low
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Won't you listen to me Brother, if you ever loved your Mother
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Please pull off on the shoulder, if you're goin' Milwaukee way
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It's ten degrees and getting colder down by Boulder Dam today
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Ten Degrees And Getting Colder
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Nanci Griffith |