It Sure Can Get Cold In Des Moines

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The Iowa weather was thirteen below
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I had come to Des Moines for a radio show
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I awoke in the evening from a traveler's sleep
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With notions of something to eat
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The old elevator slipped down past the floors
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My head and my eyes said you should have slept more
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The man at the desk said the restaurant was closed
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Outside it was fourteen below
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The lounge was still open and so I walked in
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In place of my food I had two double gins
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I looked round the room as a tourist would do
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That's when I saw the girl in the booth
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She sat there and cried in the smoky half dark
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The silent type crying that tears out your heart
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Her clothes were not cut in the new modern way
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And her suitcase had seen better days
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Nobody asked her what caused her such pain
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Nobody spoke up yet no one complained
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Without even asking I knew why she cried
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Life is just like that sometimes
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The man at the desk said it's fifteen below
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The bellhop said yeah man that's cold that's cold
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I went back to my room and I wrote down this song
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Oh it sure can get cold in Des Moines