Luyện nghe bài hát I Was Only 19

Mum and Dad and saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal
It was a march from cadets
The sixth battalion was the next to and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we

And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched to the quay
This clipping from the paper us young and strong and clean
And there's me in me slouch hat me SLR and greens
God help me - I was nineteen

From Vung Tau Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat
I'd been in and out of choppers now for
And we made our tents a home, V.B. and pinups on the
And an agent orange sunset through the

And can you tell me, doctor, why I can't get to sleep?
And night just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
And what's this that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me - I was only

A four week operation, when each step can mean last one on two legs
It was a war within
But you wouldn't let your mates 'til they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and thought somethin' else

And then someone out "Contact", and the bloke behind me swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a God roar
And Frankie a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
God help me - he was home in June

And I can still see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec. in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying screaming in the
'Til the morphine came and the bloody row

And the Anzac legends didn't mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me seemed quite real
I caught some pieces in my back that I even feel
God me, I was only 19