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

[00:00:00] I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green) - John Schumann

[00:00:12] Mum and Dad and Denny saw

[00:00:14] The passing out parade at Puckapunyal

[00:00:19] (It was long march from cadets)

[00:00:23] The Sixth Battalion was the next to tour

[00:00:26] And it was me who drew the card

[00:00:28] We did Canungra and Shoalwater

[00:00:31] Before we left

[00:00:34] And Townsville lined the footpath

[00:00:36] As we marched down to the quay;

[00:00:39] This clipping from the paper shows us young

[00:00:43] And strong and clean;

[00:00:45] And there's me in my slouch hat

[00:00:48] With my SLR and greens

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

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

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

[00:01:12] But we made our tents a home VB

[00:01:15] And pin-ups on the lockers

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

[00:01:23] And can you tell me doctor

[00:01:25] Why I still can't get to sleep

[00:01:29] And night time's just a jungle dark

[00:01:31] And a barking M16

[00:01:34] And what's this rash that comes and goes

[00:01:37] Can you tell me what it means

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

[00:01:50] A four week operation

[00:01:53] When each step could mean your last one on two legs:

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

[00:02:01] But you wouldn't let your mates down

[00:02:04] 'Til they had you dusted off

[00:02:06] So you closed your eyes

[00:02:08] And thought about something else

[00:02:12] Then someone yelled out "Contact"'

[00:02:15] And the bloke behind me swore

[00:02:18] We hooked in there for hours

[00:02:20] Then a God almighty roar;

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

[00:02:26] That mankind kicked the moon

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

[00:02:51] I can still see Frankie

[00:02:53] Drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel

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

[00:03:01] And I can still hear Frankie lying

[00:03:04] Screaming in the jungle

[00:03:07] 'Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row

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

[00:03:16] And blood and tears

[00:03:17] And stories that my father told me

[00:03:20] Never seemed quite real

[00:03:23] I caught some pieces in my back

[00:03:26] That I didn't even feel

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

[00:03:37] And can you tell me doctor

[00:03:39] Why I still can't get to sleep

[00:03:42] And why the Channel Seven chopper

[00:03:45] Chills me to my feet

[00:03:48] And what's this rash that comes and goes

[00:03:50] Can you tell me what it means

[00:03:53] God help me

[00:03:57] I was only nineteen