Shore Duty
Mike Watt * Track #15 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!
Mike Watt
- #5The Boilerman
Mike Watt
- #6Black Gang Coffee
Mike Watt
- #7Topsiders
Mike Watt
- #8No One Says Old Man (To The Old Man)
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- #9Fireman Hurley
Mike Watt
- #10Liberty Calls!
Mike Watt
- #11In The Bunk Room/Navy Wife
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- #12Crossing the Equator
Mike Watt
- #13Breaking The Choke Hold
Mike Watt
- #14Wrapped Around The Screw
Mike Watt
- #15Shore Duty
Mike Watt
Shore Duty by Mike Watt
Performed by
Mike WattProduced by
Mike WattWrited by
Mike WattAbout
“Shore Duty” is the closing track on “Contemplating the Engine Room*. In the storyline, the narrator’s friend (the Boilerman) has died in an accident at sea. This parallels D. Boon’s tragic death in a van accident on December 22, 1985 at age 27.
Shore Duty Lyrics
The unforgiving sea
Tore you from me
Left me here pullin' shore duty
Your body gone
But your spirit bird's still sailing on
Shore duty
Sure, I'm a lucky man
But how I miss you, man
All alone and pulling shore duty
Seems there's always more duty
Maybe that's the beauty