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 from
The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who the card
We did and Shoalwater before we left

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

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

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

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 down they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and about somethin' else

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

And I can still see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Hotel
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 blood and
And the stories my father told me never seemed quite real-