《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) - REDGUM

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:45] And there's me in my slouch hat 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 and pinups on the lockers

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:51] A four week operation 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 til they had you dusted off

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:03:22] I caught some pieces in my back 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 why I still can't get to sleep

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

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

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