I Was Only 19 (A Walk In The Light Green) original guitar chords by
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Key: A major•

Intro 1

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Verse 1

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Mum and dad and Danny saw

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the passing out parade at Puckapunyal

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It was a long match march from cadets

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The sixth battalion was the next to tour and

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it was me who drew the card

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We did Canun gra and Shoalwater

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before we left

Chorus 1

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And Townsville lined the footpaths

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as we marched down to the quay

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This clipping from the paper shows us

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young and strong and clean

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And there's me in me slouch hat

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with me SLR and greens

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God help me

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I was only nineteen

Verse 2

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From Vung Tau riding Chinooks

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to the dust at Nui Dat

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I'd been in and out of choppers

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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

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through the scrub

Chorus 2

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And can you tell me, doctor

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why I still can't get to sleep?

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And night time's just a jungle dark

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and a barking M-sixteen

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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

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I was only nineteen

Verse 3

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A four week opera tion when each

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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

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had you dusted off

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So you closed your eyes

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and thought about somethin' else

Chorus 3

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And then someone yelled out contact

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and the bloke behind me swore

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We hooked in there for hours

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then a God almighty roar

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And Frankie kicked a mine

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the day that mankind kicked the moon

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God help me

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He was goin' home in June

Solo 1

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Verse 4

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And I can still see Frankie,

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drinkin' tinnies in the Grand Hotel

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On a thirty-six hour rec

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leave in Vung Tau

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And I can still hear Frankie

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lying screaming in the jungle

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'Til the morphine came and killed

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the bloody row

Chorus 4

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And the Anzac legends didn't mention

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mud and blood tears

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And the stories that my father told me

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never seemed quite real

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I caught some pieces in my back

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that I didn't even feel

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God help me

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I was only nineteen

Chorus 5

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And can you tell me, doctor,

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why I still can't get to sleep?

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And why the Channel Seven chopper

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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

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I was only nineteen

Outro 1

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