I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)-John Schumann

[ti:I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green)] [ar:John Schumann] [al:Portrait - The Very Best Of John Schumann] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green) (我只有19岁（绿光下漫步）) - John Schumann [00:12.00]Mum and Dad and Denny saw [00:14.17]The passing out parade at Puckapunyal [00:16.97] [00:19.05](It was long march from cadets) [00:20.67] [00:23.72]The Sixth Battalion was the next to tour [00:26.28]And it was me who drew the card [00:28.07] [00:28.72]We did Canungra and Shoalwater [00:31.28]Before we left [00:32.05] [00:34.66]And Townsville lined the footpath [00:36.23] [00:36.79]As we marched down to the quay; [00:38.66] [00:39.84]This clipping from the paper shows us young [00:43.11]And strong and clean; [00:44.31] [00:45.43]And there's me in my slouch hat [00:47.55] [00:48.07]With my SLR and greens [00:50.13] [00:50.71]God help me I was only nineteen [00:56.67] [01:02.03]From Vung Tau riding Chinooks to the dust at Nui Dat [01:06.01] [01:07.14]I'd been in and out of choppers now for months [01:10.17] [01:12.76]But we made our tents a home VB [01:15.31]And pin-ups on the lockers [01:17.25] [01:17.98]And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub [01:21.16] [01:23.49]And can you tell me doctor [01:25.78]Why I still can't get to sleep [01:27.69] [01:29.12]And night time's just a jungle dark [01:31.17] [01:31.73]And a barking M16 [01:33.42] [01:34.64]And what's this rash that comes and goes [01:36.59] [01:37.11]Can you tell me what it means [01:38.81] [01:39.81]God help me I was only nineteen [01:45.30] [01:50.96]A four week operation [01:52.29] [01:53.11]When each step could mean your last one on two legs: [01:55.94] [01:57.38]It was a war within yourself [01:59.06] [02:01.68]But you wouldn't let your mates down [02:04.09]'Til they had you dusted off [02:05.51] [02:06.95]So you closed your eyes [02:08.50]And thought about something else [02:10.02] [02:12.46]Then someone yelled out "Contact"' [02:14.21] [02:15.41]And the bloke behind me swore [02:17.02] [02:18.00]We hooked in there for hours [02:19.59] [02:20.74]Then a God almighty roar; [02:22.48] [02:23.64]Frankie kicked a mine the day [02:26.33]That mankind kicked the moon [02:28.04] [02:28.88]God help me he was going home in June [02:34.50] [02:51.29]I can still see Frankie [02:52.72] [02:53.46]Drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel [02:55.53] [02:56.23]On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau [02:59.42] [03:01.93]And I can still hear Frankie lying [03:04.53]Screaming in the jungle [03:06.12] [03:07.17]'Till the morphine came and killed the bloody row [03:09.95] [03:12.63]And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud [03:16.10]And blood and tears [03:17.16] [03:17.98]And stories that my father told me [03:20.94]Never seemed quite real [03:22.36] [03:23.42]I caught some pieces in my back [03:25.54] [03:26.18]That I didn't even feel [03:27.66] [03:28.86]God help me I was only nineteen [03:34.71] [03:37.03]And can you tell me doctor [03:38.76] [03:39.31]Why I still can't get to sleep [03:41.20] [03:42.75]And why the Channel Seven chopper [03:45.31]Chills me to my feet [03:46.70] [03:48.18]And what's this rash that comes and goes [03:50.63]Can you tell me what it means [03:52.31] [03:53.37]God help me [03:54.07] [03:57.53]I was only nineteen