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

Mum and Dad and Danny saw the out parade at Puckapunyal
It was a long march from
The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the
We did Canungra and Shoalwater 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 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 now for months
And we our tents a home, V.B. and pinups on the lockers
And an Asian orange sunset through the

And can you tell me, doctor, why i still get to sleep?
And night just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
And this rash 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 'til they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and about somethin' else

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

And I can still see Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the Hotel
On a hour rec. leave in Vung Tau
And I can hear Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle
'Til the came and killed the bloody row

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