[ti:Ten Degrees and Getting Colder] [ar:Nanci Griffith] [al:Other Voices Other Rooms] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Ten Degrees and Getting Colder - Nanci Griffith [00:07.90]He was standing by the highway [00:10.17]With a sign that just said mother [00:12.68]When he heard a driver coming [00:15.28]About a half a mile away [00:17.63]So he held the sign up higher [00:20.18]Where no decent soul could miss it [00:22.84]It was ten degrees or colder [00:25.18]Down by boulder dam that day [00:29.16]He was raised up in milwaukee [00:31.53]Though he never was that famous [00:34.12]He was just a road musician [00:36.61]To the taverns he would go [00:39.33]Singing songs about the ramblin' [00:42.05]The lovin' girls and gamblin' [00:44.34]How the world fell on his shoulders [00:46.72]Back in boulder I don't know [00:51.60]And she told him she would take him [00:56.78]For a ride in the morning sun [01:01.63]Back in boulder he had told her [01:06.51]I don't know when I've had a better friend [01:14.79]It was out in arizona [01:16.99]That he heard the lady listening [01:19.57]To each word that he was saying [01:21.92]To each line that he would write [01:24.57]So he sat down at her table [01:26.98]And they talked about the weather [01:29.61]98 6 and rising down by boulder dam that night [01:37.21]And she told him she would take him [01:41.88]For a ride in the morning sun [01:47.27]Back in boulder he had told her [01:51.96]I don't know when I've had a better friend [01:59.87]Now he's traded off his martin [02:02.46]Though his troubles ain't over [02:04.97]His feet are almost frozen and the sun is sinking [02:09.25]Low [02:10.07]Won't you listen to me brother if you ever loved [02:13.80]Your mother [02:14.94]I want to pull off on the shoulder [02:17.39]If you're goin' milwaukee [02:19.15]Way [02:19.64]It's ten degrees and getting colder down by boulder dam [02:23.97]Today