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Ten Degrees Colder
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Not the Gordon Lightfoot song but one of mine with a similar title. Was originally going to be a bluegrass song... but I stuck to finger-picking
Tonedeaf Jnr. was born into a family of travelling midgets back in 1963, which fortunately coincided with the craze in building roller-coasters. You see that sign that says 'No-one below 3' 6" allowed on this ride'? That's Tonedeaf Snr's work, that is. He rode just about every new coaster built since '64 to check how low a ride's permissions could go before it started launching the occupants out across the park. That's actually how Snr. met Mrs. Deaf. She was trimming her beard over by the caravans when Snr. came flying through the air, narrowly avoiding a mid-air collision with Busted Bone Billy - who was practising his human cannonball act - and landed on the fortune teller's tent, who luckily had seen him coming in more ways than one and had evacuated to the strongman's arms. It was a right circus, but thereafter - and especially when young Tonedeaf started blowing his horn in public - everyone said it must have been fate.
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Genre
Acoustic • Acoustic General
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Peak #13
Peak in subgenre #5
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July 31, 2017
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MP3 2.8 MB • 128 kbps • 3:05
Story behind the song
Anti-war song in a day and age where we still need them
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She came out of the mist and the snow was falling down Walking 'long the rails on the west side of town A scarf around her shoulders and ice upon her shawl It was ten degrees colder than I ever could recall She came into the tavern and shook the snow from her shoes Stood by the fire and asked if we had heard the news There were soldiers from afar marching forth to war It was ten degrees colder than I ever could recall I rushed into the street but the sound of marching men And the blizzard and the ice drove me back inside again Old Joe behind the bar was loading his cap and ball It was ten degrees colder than I ever could recall Billy had a shotgun, Little Jimmy had a knife The girl from the west had been somebody's wife We were widows and orphans and old men one and all It was ten degrees colder than I ever could recall They didn't speak our language they used lead and fire instead When the tavern was ablaze into the winter we fled I helped those I could but I saw some good men fall It was ten degrees colder than I ever could recall We came out of the mist and the snow was falling down Walking 'long the rails on the west side of town Me and a girl with ice upon her shawl It was ten degrees colder than I ever could recall
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