Liberty Calls!
Mike Watt * Track #10 On Contemplating the Engine Room
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Album Contemplating the Engine Room
- #1In The Engine Room
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- #2Red Bluff
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- #3The Bluejackets’ Manual
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- #4Pedro Bound!
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- #5The Boilerman
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- #6Black Gang Coffee
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- #7Topsiders
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- #8No One Says Old Man (To The Old Man)
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- #9Fireman Hurley
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- #10Liberty Calls!
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- #11In The Bunk Room/Navy Wife
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- #12Crossing the Equator
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- #13Breaking The Choke Hold
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- #14Wrapped Around The Screw
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- #15Shore Duty
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Liberty Calls! by Mike Watt
Performed by
Mike WattProduced by
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“Liberty Calls” is the tenth track on Contemplating the Engine Room, and was the album’s only single. Here, Watt parallels Navy sailors getting to take some time off when their ship docks for short period, with touring bands arriving at their next gig to perform for local music lovers.
Liberty Calls! Lyrics
Liberty calls on a liberty call!
Six weeks at sea
And what does that mean?
We need liberty!
Rolling with the hell-ride
Yaw and pitchin' inside
Liberty!
Clear the gangway, pop the hatches
Fireman Hurley sayin' "get them batches!"
We're sailor men and we're in your town
Drink that bourbon right straight down!
We're mission men and here to learn
Here to take on fuel and burn!
Liberty calls on a liberty call!
Me and the boilerman
Checking out the other lands with what?
Our liberty!
Figuring out the histories
Tripping on the mysteries
Liberty!
Clear the gangway, pop the hatches
Fireman Hurley sayin' "get them batches!"
We're sailor men and we're in your town
Drink that bourbon right straight down!
We're mission men and here to learn
Here to take on fuel and burn!
Liberty Calls! Q&A
Who wrote Liberty Calls!'s ?
Liberty Calls! was written by Mike Watt.
Who produced Liberty Calls!'s ?
Liberty Calls! was produced by Mike Watt.
What did Mike Watt say about "Liberty Calls!"?
“My dad said, ‘There’s only so long you can piss in the wind.’ He knew I did music to be with D. Boon, but he could not understand why I was still doing music when D. Boon got killed,” Watt recalled. “So I start sending him postcards from tour. And he couldn’t believe I’m playing all these places …...