[ti:It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines] [ar:Tom T. Hall] [al:In Search Of A Song] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines - Tom T. Hall [00:03.30]Written by:Tom T. Hall [00:06.61]The iowa weather was 13 below [00:14.54]I had come to des moines for a radio show [00:21.37]I awoke in the evening from a traveler's sleep [00:27.74]With notions of something to eat [00:34.56]The old elevator slid down past the floors [00:40.93]My head and my eyes said [00:44.02]You should have slept more [00:48.91]The man at the desk said the restaurant was closed [00:55.43]Outside it was 14 below [01:01.71]The lounge was still open and so I walked in [01:09.59]In place of my food I had two double gins [01:16.39]I looked 'round the room [01:19.55]As a tourist would do [01:22.77]That's when I saw the girl in the booth [01:29.27]She sat there and cried in the smoky half dark [01:35.85]The silent type crying that tears out your heart [01:43.90]Her clothes were not cut in the new modern way [01:50.21]And her suitcase had seen better days [01:57.02]Nobody asked her what caused her such pain [02:04.85]Nobody spoke up yet no one complained [02:11.46]Without even asking [02:14.58]I knew why she cried [02:17.95]Life is just like that sometimes [02:23.88]The man at the desk said [02:27.41]It's 15 below [02:30.32]The bellhop said yeah man [02:33.73]That's cold that's cold [02:38.22]I went back to my room and [02:41.73]I wrote down this song [02:44.72]Oh it sure can get cold in des moines