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 before we left

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

From Vung Tau riding 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 orange sunset through the scrub

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

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

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

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