Key: C major
Intro 1
C
F
Bb
C
Bb
C
F
Verse 1
standing by the highway
With a sign that just said mother
Bb
F
When he heard a driver coming
G
C
About a half a mile away
So no decent soul could miss it
Bb
F
He was ten degrees or colder
C
F
Down by Boulder down that day
He was raised up in Milwaukee
Though he never was that famous
F
G
C
To the taverns he would go
Lovin' girls and gamblin'
Bb
F
How the world fell on his shoulder
C
F
Back in Boulder, I don't know
It was out in Arizona
that he heard the lady listening
Bb
F
To each word that he was saying,
G
C
to each line that he would write
and he talked about the weather
Bb
F
98 .6 and rising down by
C
F
Boulder Dam that night
C
Eb
Bb
F
for a ride in the morning sun
Bb
C
Back in Boulder, he told her,
Eb
Bb
I don't know when I've had a better
F
Bb
C
Bb
F
Bb
C
friend
F
Now he's traded off with Martin,
but his troubles are not over
Bb
F
His feet are al most frozen
G
C
and the sun is sinking low
if you ever loved your mother
Bb
F
Please pull off on the shoulder,
G
C
if you're going the walking way
F
Bb
F
It's ten degrees and getting colder
F
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TunerE A D G B E
ChordsC F Bb G Eb
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