The Ballad Of Wendel Clark

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Date: Tue, 8 Aug 1995 21:32:43 -0400 (EDT)
From: John Carson 

 
Subject: CRD: The Ballad Of Wendel Clark by the Rheostatics

The Ballad of Wendel Clark
By the Rheostatics
>From the Album "Greatest Hits 1987"
Part 1 Lyrics/Vocal-Martin Tielli,
Part 2 Lyrics-Dave Clark and Dave Bidini
Transcribed by John Carson and Dejan Pavlovic
johncars@uoguelph.ca
{Define: 
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Part 1


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Got 
 A friend in 
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know some winders kissing N.Y.,
  
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I wanna buy a motercycle,
    
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And cut up to some farm.
          
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Somewhere in this cowshit county,
          
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where the hills are round and green,
          
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round and green, round and green,
          
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where the hills are round and green!

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Late nights make me really tired,
         
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all this jamming gives me a headaches,
     
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like listening to earthquakes,
          
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all wired up for rock and roll,

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Mama only listens to the radio,

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Papa only watches the hockey game,

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This suburb rocks with the eddie van Wailers,
             
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God save the Queen--  She made you a MORON

Part 2
Intro 
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Well I heard Wendel talking to Dave Hodge last night
   
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he said that he was confident and keen

he said that Jacques Plante did`nt die

so all of us could glide
             
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he said that hard work is the ethic of the free.

CHORUS

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Wendel was a man with a stick in his hands
   
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he learned how to play in Kelvington S.A.S.K.
       
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You`ll wish that you had died
     
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when Wendel has your hide
          
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`cause he does it the Canadian way


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so now we sit around on the couch and watch T.V.,
           
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And we see Wendel leading the team

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If god made Clark on the 7th day,
   
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He knew what He was doing if He did......If He did!

CHORUS


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Bam Bam.- digga digga damm           (4x)

CHORUS


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