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 battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card
We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we

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

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

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

And then yelled out "Contact", another bloke swore
We hooked in there for hours, a God almighty 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, tinnies in the Grand Hotel
On a thirty-six hour rec. leave in Tau
And I can still hear Frankie, screaming 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 told me never seemed quite real-