Redgum - I Was Only 19, аккорды

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 Mum and Dad and Denny saw the passing-out parade at Puckapunyal 
               
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 It was a long march from cadets. 
 
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 The sixth battalion was the next to tour, 
           
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 and it was me who drew the card. 
        
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 We did Canungra, 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 my slouch hat with my SLR and greens. 
     
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 God help me, I was only nineteen.  
 
      
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 From Vung Tau, riding Chinooks, to the dust at Nui Dat 
          
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 I'd been in and out of choppers now for months. 
        
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 But we made our tents a home, VB and pinups on the lockers 
        
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 And an agent 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 M16? 
     
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 And what's this rash that comes and goes, 
        
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 can you tell me what it means? 
     
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 God help me, I was only nineteen.  
 
   
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 А four week operation when each step could mean 
     
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 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 something else.  
 
      
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 Then someone yelled out "Contact!" and the bloke behind me swore 
    
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 We hooked in there for hours, then a Godalmighty roar 
 
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 Frankie kicked a mine the day that mankind kicked the moon, 
     
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 God help me, he was going home in June.  
 
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 I can still see Frankie, drinking tinnies in the Grand Hotel 
      
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 On a thirty-six hour rec leave in Vung Tau 
     
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 And I can still hear 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. 
   
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 I caught some pieces in my back that I didn't even feel 
     
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 God help me, I was only nineteen.  
 
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 And can you tell me, doctor, why I still can't get to sleep? 
     
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 And why the Channel Seven chopper chills me to my feet? 
     
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 And what's this rash that comes and goes, 
        
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 can you tell me what it means? 
     
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 God help me, I was only nineteen.  
 
Outro: 
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