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 next to tour and it was me who drew the
We did and Shoalwater before we left

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

From Vung Tau 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 can't get to
And night time's just a jungle dark and a M.16?
And what's this rash that and goes, can you tell me what it means?
God help me - I was nineteen

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

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

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

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