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Mum and Dad and |
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Danny saw the passing out parade at |
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Puckapunyal |
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It was a long march from cadets |
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The sixth battalion was the next to tour and it was me who drew the card |
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We did Canungra and |
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Shoalwater before we left |
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And Townsville lined the footpaths as we marched down to the quay |
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This clipping from the paper shows us young and strong and clean |
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And there's me in me slouch hat with me |
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SLR and greens |
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God help me - |
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I was only nineteen |
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From Vung |
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Tau riding |
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Chinooks to the dust at |
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Nui DatI'd been in and out of choppers now for months |
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And we made our tents a home, |
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V.B. and pinups on the lockers |
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And an Asian orange sunset through the scrub |
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And can you tell me, doctor, why i still can't get to sleep? |
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And night time's just a jungle dark and a barking |
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M.16?And what's this rash that comes and goes, can you tell me what it means? |
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God help me - |
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I was only nineteen |
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A four week operation, when each step can mean your last one on two legs |
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It was a war within yourself |
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But you wouldn't let your mates down 'til they had you dusted off |
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So you closed your eyes and thought about somethin' else |
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And then someone yelled out "Contact", another bloke swore |
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We hooked in there for hours, then a |
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God almighty roar |
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And Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon |
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God help me - he was goin' home in |
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JuneAnd I can still see |
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Frankie, drinkin' tinnies in the |
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Grand Hotel |
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On a thirty-six hour rec. leave in |
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Vung TauAnd |
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I can still hear |
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Frankie, lying screaming in the jungle' |
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Til the morphine came and killed the bloody row |
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And the Anzac legends didn't mention mud and blood and tears |
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And the stories that my father told me never seemed quite real- |
