Colin Hay - Freedom Calling Lyrics

How could this music be forgotten or even not famous? The guy is composing and writing like a fucking legend.

Gorgeous!

Ah, SeaChange..How I love you. ❤️❤️❤️

excellent song my fav

Colin Hay Just has no bad songs, what a great artist!

I concur

Thanh you!

thank you!!

Will done mate and you are so 'right, It feels very organic. A time when bands worked hard to earn their money, and they could sing. Australian bands. LONG LIVE AUSTRALIA. Cheer(s). And Thank(S). Indeed.

Best song for the final chapter of the postcard bandit!!!

POSTCARD BANDITS BROUGHT ME HERE <3!

Nutzietheclown same here

Beautiful song...remember it from Seachange (Australian TV).

Absolutley fabulous love the lyrics and the bagpipes, this may the tune I go into my funeral with but it must be played in full!

Me too totally agree love this song

right on

I feel a smug sense of satisfaction at having bought just about every MAW and solo record as it came out, but whenever we discovered or rediscovered Colin Hay, just remember that it's down to people like him, Lloyd Cole and Robyn Hitchcock that the real essence of melodic songwriting still exists. One of my favourite tracks, too - makes the hairs on the back of my neck stand up and I'm not even of Celtic descent...

More like rediscovered his work on Scrubs. I followed him shortly after Men at Work disbanded but never bought the remarkably hard to find albums.

@robblindsay Nope. Down Under was my favorite song when I was little so I kinda already knew who Colin was. Still love him:) His songs and voice always make me smile:)<3

@robblindsay hahahahah you are right (:

this song was on the very last episode of the last series of the australian show "seachange". it was my favourite show and ill always love it and this song :)

@stevejedi Come on, I think calling him Australian is fair enough. Aside from growing up here, he wrote one of the most iconic songs about Australia and being Australian, ever. Let us have him.

Colin James Hay

Place of Birth: Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland

Date of Birth: June 29, 1953

Colin Hay is a Scottish-born Australian singer, songwriter, musician, and actor.

Colin was born in Kilwinning, North Ayrshire, Scotland, the son of Isabella and James “Jim” Hay. He moved with his family to Australia when he was fourteen years old.

@Jimmythepin Australia is a melting pot of cultures from across the world. His parents probably came here to try and give their kids the quality of life lacking in Scotland. Many of us here have Irish/Scottish/English or other descent, my ancestors came here from 1854 - 1890 and probably for the same reasons as I suggested. Britain had a class structure where working class couldn't lift itself up from the gutters or if you were farmers you were beholding to the gentrified landowners. Australia gave those people a chance at a life mostly without class or caste system and a chance to make a better life for their kids. Sadly those systems are pretty evident here now. In Kilwinning he may not have got that chance.

What about those of us who have followed him since Men At Work? I never watched Scrubs

I think Australians all know of Colin Hay from Seachange, an Australian mini-series that was famous in the 90s. But then he is an Aussie ....

Turn it up, I saw them at the cricketers arms in 1979/80 and they had to pack their own gear up.

I remember him from Men at Work but that's prolly cuz i'm old.

This is an amazing song and I did look up waiting for my life to begin from scrubs and found all of this wonderful music....

@robblindsay hells yeah!

Needs more high hat at the start... lol

@robblindsay or where a fan all their lifes....

he is big enough in ireland. Always has been.

Happy to have followed Colin Hay right from the early days so I've had this song in my life for as long as almost anyone. Beautiful!

I first heard this song on the postcard bandi and had to get it.I remember there was a point on me travels when i felt alone n was on an overnight random shared ride from hannover to amsterdam.I never had anything planned and was on me own.I was listening to me music at the time and this song came. funnily enough the bit where he goes "suddenly you're on an upon unknown road, passing all the heavy long wide loads" came on as we drove pass 2 trucks and i felt.. i guess my freedom calling :)

@robblindsay True, so true:) That's how I got sucked in. And damn, I'm stuck hard!!

Thank you!

He played this in Milwaukee last night, was such a great concert. This guy is perfect live.

Anyone who grew up with MenAtWork followed Colin's career, BRILLIANT! and thank ye for posting ...

@m0mmu

That's exactly where I heard this song, and I too have been looking for this song for ages, finally I've found what it's called.

That movie has a lot of GREAT aussie music that I also discovered through it.

Thanks uploader :-)

Well, I know I did. Overkill is awesome.

I think about 70% of the people who like Colin Hay discovered his music on scrubs and youtube did the rest :)

My personal fave - thanks for posting! I'll be seeing him IRL the next two nights - can't wait! I can't even sleep - too excited!

i been looking for this songs for ages...i think last i heard was on the ending scene from the movie "Postcard Bandit" ..anyway thank heaps for posting mate!!

I heard this when I was 12 as the final episode of Seachange in Australia. An Australian drama series based on community and getting rid of the city and all the things that do not really matter. This was the final song on the final episode. I have been searching for it forever!! Thank God I found it is all I can say!

I've been a fan ever since I first heard 'Down Under' back in 1983. This, though, is probably my favourite song that he has ever written. So powerful and with outstanding instrumentation and arrangement. Love to see him live!

Most of the music he makes is good, but this one is truly outstanding.

This is my FAV song! ^_^

it is underappreiciated, not his best but still good, but im soo jealous of the comment above, 35 times!! i became a fan jan 2007, been waiting for him to come to england since he released his last album, wish i lived in america