Biography:
Rheostatics are a Canadian indie rock band. Although they had only one Top 40 hit (Claire in 1995), they were simultaneously one of Canada's most influential and most unconventional rock bands in the 1990s, a band whose defiantly quirky, yet compelling, take on pop and rock music has been described both as iconic and iconoclastic.
They played their farewell concert to a sold-out house at Toronto's Massey Hall on March 30, 2007. Sound board recordings of that and many other shows are available (with permission) at http://rheostaticslive.
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Other songs:
- Aliens Christmas 1988
- Bad Time To Be Poor
- California Dreamline
- Claire
- Dead Is The Drunkest You Can Get
- Dope Fiends And Boozehounds
- Horses
- Introducing Happiness
- It
- King Of The Past
- Legal Age Life At Variety Store
- Lyings Wrong
- Making Progress
- Mumbletypeg
- My First Rock Concert
- Northern Wish
- Queer
- Record Body Count
- Saskatchewan
- Self Serve Gas Station
- Take Me In Your Hand
- The Ballad Of Wendel Clark
- The Harmelodian Anthem
- We Went West
- When Winter Comes
- You Are A Treasure
Northern Wish
On the album "Melville" and "Music Inspired by the Group of 7"
Transcribed by Johanna Macdonald ([email protected])
C Em
wake up, raise the curtains
F C
on your deep provincial eyes
F C
speak out, for i am certain
F
that it's no disguise
C Em
'cause soldiers stopping traffic
F C
couldn't keep these wheels at bay
F C
their guns smoked and the sun broke
F
and we hauled away
C Em
and did you get my message
F C
on the peoples' radio?
F C
i wrote it in alberta
F
across the prairie spine
C Em
and "i'd rather jump the border
F C
than trail from east to west."
F C
then get the booking agent
F
to find another band
C Em
and mothers of the country
F C
take two flags and make a sail
F C
we'll sail the big dominion
F
this song is falling...
D
i built my rocket in a shed
A
i'm gonna launch it at the sun
D
i'm gonna launch it from my pad
F
oh - could i get this?
C G C
it's my northern wish.
C Em
meanwhile in the forest
F C
in a parliament of trees
F C
the ink will crack and dry all up
F
but the compass will swing, any-way
C Em
and we don't need mathematics
F C
we don't need submarines
F C
to tell how far that the land does go
F
until it hits the shore
C Em
and mothers of the country
F C
take two flags and make a sail
F C
we'll sail the big dominion
F
this song is falling
D
i built my rocket in a shed
A
i'm gonna launch it at the sun
D
i'm gonna launch it from my pad
F
oh - could i get this?
C G C
it's my northern wish.
C Em
wake up, raise the curtains
F C
on your deep provincial eyes
F C
speak out for i am certain
F C
this song is over
*****
the Go7 version adds a G chord between verses:
F G
and we hauled away...
C Em
and mothers of the country... etc.
On the album "Melville" and "Music Inspired by the Group of 7"
Transcribed by Johanna Macdonald ([email protected])
C Em
wake up, raise the curtains
F C
on your deep provincial eyes
F C
speak out, for i am certain
F
that it's no disguise
C Em
'cause soldiers stopping traffic
F C
couldn't keep these wheels at bay
F C
their guns smoked and the sun broke
F
and we hauled away
C Em
and did you get my message
F C
on the peoples' radio?
F C
i wrote it in alberta
F
across the prairie spine
C Em
and "i'd rather jump the border
F C
than trail from east to west."
F C
then get the booking agent
F
to find another band
C Em
and mothers of the country
F C
take two flags and make a sail
F C
we'll sail the big dominion
F
this song is falling...
D
i built my rocket in a shed
A
i'm gonna launch it at the sun
D
i'm gonna launch it from my pad
F
oh - could i get this?
C G C
it's my northern wish.
C Em
meanwhile in the forest
F C
in a parliament of trees
F C
the ink will crack and dry all up
F
but the compass will swing, any-way
C Em
and we don't need mathematics
F C
we don't need submarines
F C
to tell how far that the land does go
F
until it hits the shore
C Em
and mothers of the country
F C
take two flags and make a sail
F C
we'll sail the big dominion
F
this song is falling
D
i built my rocket in a shed
A
i'm gonna launch it at the sun
D
i'm gonna launch it from my pad
F
oh - could i get this?
C G C
it's my northern wish.
C Em
wake up, raise the curtains
F C
on your deep provincial eyes
F C
speak out for i am certain
F C
this song is over
*****
the Go7 version adds a G chord between verses:
F G
and we hauled away...
C Em
and mothers of the country... etc.
Rhii
Rhoma Irama
Rhonda Vincent
Rhose
Rhyman