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
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RECORD BODY COUNT
A G
Joey pulled himself to his feet,
D
Hauled his body back up the bank
A G A
And looked back down there.
A G
He said the water was not that deep;
D
"But I almost drowned there."
A G A
You can drown in a bathtub so they say.
A G
"Someone in class called me a loser,
D A G A
So I decided to skip the day hey hey - skip the day.
A G
I tried to look casual sneaking round the back,
D
Past the shotput across the track
A G A
And to the gate beside the portables.
A G
But a red tie and school gray slacks
D
Doesn't blend in with the grass
A G
As the teacher was changing class.
Amaj7 A7
He chased me halfway through the park,
Bm
Till I ran into the woods;
D A
And I'm very good in the woods.
A G
So I was an Indian,
D
Built a fire by the creek
A G
And dried my eyes there."
Amaj7 A7 Bm
There's a record body count this year
D A
There's a record body count this year.
A G
Joey stepped up on a block of ice,
D
Put a rope around his neck,
A
And fell asleep before he died.
A G
Joey pulled himself to his feet,
D
Hauled his body back up the bank
A G A
And looked back down there.
A G
He said the water was not that deep;
D
"But I almost drowned there."
A G A
You can drown in a bathtub so they say.
A G
"Someone in class called me a loser,
D A G A
So I decided to skip the day hey hey - skip the day.
A G
I tried to look casual sneaking round the back,
D
Past the shotput across the track
A G A
And to the gate beside the portables.
A G
But a red tie and school gray slacks
D
Doesn't blend in with the grass
A G
As the teacher was changing class.
Amaj7 A7
He chased me halfway through the park,
Bm
Till I ran into the woods;
D A
And I'm very good in the woods.
A G
So I was an Indian,
D
Built a fire by the creek
A G
And dried my eyes there."
Amaj7 A7 Bm
There's a record body count this year
D A
There's a record body count this year.
A G
Joey stepped up on a block of ice,
D
Put a rope around his neck,
A
And fell asleep before he died.
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Rhoma Irama
Rhonda Vincent
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