Nothing beats a live performance, where the band and the singers are doing it without the lip sync and actually playing their instruments. This is Sherbet’s hit “Howzat” performed in 1976, the era of Glam Rock in Australia. The song was popular to many due to the fact the song used a cricket term, to say that the lover had been found out.
The phrase “Howzat!” was used by bowlers in cricket, to ask the umpire if they had bowled a batsman out. 1977 – 1978, was the age of the World Series Cricket series in Australia, and so this song was played relentlessly over that Summer.
You told me I was the one
The only one who got your head undone
And for a while I believed the line that you spun
But I’ve been looking at you
Looking closely at the things you do
I didn’t see it the way you wanted me to
How, how, howzat?
You messed about
I caught you out, howzat?
Now that I found where you’re at
It’s goodbye
Well, howzat? It’s goodbye
You only came for a smile
Even though you’re really not my style
I didn’t think that you’d run me ’round
Like you do
How, how, howzat?
You messed about
I caught you out, howzat?
Now that I found where you’re at
It’s goodbye
Well, howzat? It’s goodbye, aha
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Well, I’ve been looking at you
(I’ll tell you what I see)
Looking closely at the things you do
(No, you can’t fool me)
I didn’t see it the way you wanted me to
How, how, howzat?
You messed about
I caught you out, howzat?
Now that I found where you’re at
It’s goodbye
Howzat? You messed about
I caught you out, howzat?
Now that I found where you’re at
It’s goodbye
Well howzat? Goodbye
Oh yeah, oh yeah
Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah
Doo wah, doo wah, doo wah, doo wah
Aah
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