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

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

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

From Tau riding 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 Asian sunset through the scrub

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

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

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

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

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