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   10/12/2009 at 6:04 pm

   While in Baghdad, the Aussie’s introduced me to this song…

   “I Was Only 19 (A Walk In the Light Green)”

   Mum and Dad and Danny saw the passing out parade at Puckapunyal
   It was a long march from cadets
   The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card
   We did Canungra and Shoalwater before we left

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

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

   And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can’t get to sleep?
   And night time’s just a jungle dark and a barking M.16?
   And what’s this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means?
   God help me – I was only nineteen

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

   And then someone yelled out “Contact”, and the bloke behind me swore
   We hooked in there for hours, then a God almighty roar
   And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon
   God help me – he was goin’ home in June

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

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

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