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 to tour and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra and before we left

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

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 on the lockers
And an orange sunset through the scrub

And can you tell me, doctor, why i still get to sleep?
And night time's just a dark and a barking M.16?
And this rash 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 your last one on two
It was a war yourself
But you wouldn't let your down 'til they had you dusted off
So you closed your and thought about somethin' else

And then someone yelled out "Contact", another bloke
We hooked in there for hours, 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 see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec. in Vung Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, lying in the jungle
'Til the came and killed the bloody row

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