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

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

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the 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 through the

And can you tell me, doctor, why i still get to sleep?
And night time's just a jungle 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 week operation, when each step can mean your last one on two legs
It was a war yourself
But you wouldn't let your down 'til they had you dusted off
So you closed your eyes and thought about else

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

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

And the Anzac legends mention mud and blood and tears
And the stories that my father told me seemed quite real-