"Mutiny" is a Longest Johns original written by Robbie Sattin, and released as track 5 on Voyage. The lyrics tell the ironic tale of a discontented sailor who ultimately ends up on the receiving end of the very treachery he helped to instigate.
Lyrics[]
As performed on the album.
We're contracted here in a rickety vessel, on an ocean so endlessly vast.
Swore in the mess to state our dissention, and swiftly got tied to the mast.
For the captain's a tyrant, and has not a care for anything under the sun,
So untie me mates, we'll send him to hell, and plunder us 500 tonnes.
Oh, mutiny! Mutiny! Lead on my friends,
Mutiny! Mutiny! Don't look so tense.
There's gold to be taken, we'll bathe in it when
We mutiny, mutiny! Get to it then.
A new dawn has risen, and with it our spirits; the chains have been cut from our feet.
So pass out the grog, find my cup and fill it, and toast to our new liberty.
All now together, we'll construct a plan to reap all we want from the sea,
But someone must guide, with safe, steady hands and maybe that someone is...me.
Mutiny! Mutiny! Don't think so small,
Mutiny! Mutiny! Answer the call.
In brotherhood, sisterhood, for the long haul
It's mutiny, mutiny! Good sailors all.
Everything's perfect, just as I planned, and great things are coming, but still...
A creeping sensation I feel in my bones, that somebody wishes us ill. (Is it that guy?)
Don't trust the mate, the cook, or the bosun; they dream to bend you to their will.
Objectors must go, I cannot allow them to disrupt this Eden we've built. (I see you over there behind the barrel!)
Oh, mutiny! Mutiny! Turncoats are near.
Mutiny! Mutiny! Nobody here
Can stomach a leader with vision so clear,
It's mutiny, mutiny, just as I feared!
I'm contracted here, on a rickety vessel, in irons in the galley below.
The burden I shouldered so graciously, was removed, and so quickly bestowed
On a firebrand and knave with grandiose ideas, so different to those of my own.
We'll see if it lasts, methinks I can hear the crew already starting to moan. (Oh, here we go again...)
Mutiny! Mutiny! Chaos in spades,
Mutiny! Mutiny! Every few days.
A curse on the tyrant and all of his ways,
But mutiny, mutiny, led us astray,
Mutiny, mutiny, spreads like the plague.
Mutiny! Mutiny! Join the melee.
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- Club Academy, Manchester (16 Mar 2024) (Sausages!)
- Exeter Phoenix, Exeter (5 Apr 2024)
- Thalia Hall, Chicago, IL (21 May 2024)
- Festival Dranouter (3 Aug 2024)
- Warwick Arts Centre, Coventry, UK (1 Feb 2025)