Luyện nghe bài hát I Was Only 19 (a Walk In The Light Green)

Mum and Dad and Danny saw the passing out parade at
It was a long march from
The sixth battalion was the to tour and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra and before we left

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

From Vung Tau riding to the dust at Nui Dat
I'd in and out of choppers now for months
And we made our a home, V.B. and pinups on the lockers
And an Asian sunset through the scrub

And can you tell me, doctor, why i still get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle dark and a M.16?
And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it
God help me - I was nineteen

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

And then someone yelled out "Contact", another swore
We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty
And Frankie a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
God help me - he was goin' home in

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

And the legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father me never seemed quite real-