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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and and tears
And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite