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.
¡Cuatro años de duro trabajo!Este mes de mayo cumplimos cuatro años al aire. Seguimos trabajando en la difusión de este maravilloso instrumento, ¡gracias por participar en nuestra historia!
Northern Wish On the album "Melville" and "Music Inspired by the Group of 7" Transcribed by Johanna Macdonald ([email protected])
CEm wake up, raise the curtains FC on your deep provincial eyes FC speak out, for i am certain F that it's no disguise CEm 'cause soldiers stopping traffic FC couldn't keep these wheels at bay FC their guns smoked and the sun broke F and we hauled away
CEm and did you get my message FC on the peoples' radio? FC i wrote it in alberta F across the prairie spine CEm and "i'd rather jump the border FC than trail from east to west." FC then get the booking agent F to find another band
CEm and mothers of the country FC take two flags and make a sail FC 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? CGC it's my northern wish.
CEm meanwhile in the forest FC in a parliament of trees FC the ink will crack and dry all up F but the compass will swing, any-way CEm and we don't need mathematics FC we don't need submarines FC to tell how far that the land does go F until it hits the shore
CEm and mothers of the country FC take two flags and make a sail FC 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? CGC it's my northern wish.
CEm wake up, raise the curtains FC on your deep provincial eyes FC speak out for i am certain FC this song is over
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the Go7 version adds a G chord between verses: FG and we hauled away... CEm and mothers of the country... etc.