《I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)》歌词

歌曲： I Was Only 19 (A Walk in the Light Green)

所属专辑：The Essential

歌手： Redgum

时长： 04:19

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I WAS ONLY 19 (A WALK IN THE LIGHT GREEN) - REDGUM[00:00:00]

Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal[00:00:12]

It was a long march from cadets [00:00:19]

The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card [00:00:23]

We did Canungra Shoalwater before we left [00:00:29]

And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay[00:00:34]

This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean [00:00:40]

And there's me in my slouch hat with my SLR and greens [00:00:45]

God help me I was only nineteen [00:00:50]

From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat[00:01:02]

I'd been in and out of choppers now for months [00:01:07]

But we made our tents a home VB and pinups on the lockers[00:01:12]

And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub [00:01:17]

And can you tell me doctor why I stil can't get to sleep [00:01:23]

And night-time's just a jungle dark and a barking M16 [00:01:29]

And what's this rash that comes and goes can you tell me what it means [00:01:34]

God help me I was only ninteen [00:01:39]

A four week operation when each step could mean your last one on two legs[00:01:51]

It was a war within yourself [00:01:57]

But you wouldn't let your mates down til they had you dusted off[00:02:01]

So you closed your eyes and thought about something else [00:02:06]

Then someone yelled out "Contact " and the bloke behind me swore[00:02:12]

We hooked in there for hours then a Godalmighty roar[00:02:17]

Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon [00:02:23]

God help me he was going home in June [00:02:28]

I can still see Frankie drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel[00:02:51]

On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau[00:02:56]

And I can still hear Frankie lying screaming in the jungle[00:03:01]

Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row [00:03:06]

And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears[00:03:12]

And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real [00:03:17]

I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel[00:03:22]

God help me I was only nineteen [00:03:28]

And can you tell me doctor why I still can't get to sleep [00:03:37]

And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet [00:03:42]

And what's this rash that comes and goes can you tell me what it means [00:03:47]

God help me I was only nineteen[00:03:53]